High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism by Sherry B. Ortner

High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism

Sherry B. Ortner

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An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from folk or popular Buddhism. Sherry Ortner ...

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