Long lives and untimely deaths : (Record no. 12462)
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| fixed length control field | 110819s2012 mauab sb 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789004217485 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic book) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789004217034 |
| Qualifying information | (print) |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1163/9789004217485 |
| Source of number or code | DOI |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)778434347 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NL-LeKB |
| Transcribing agency | NL-LeKB |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | a-ii--- |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DS432.T5 |
| Item number | G47 2012 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HREX |
| Source | bicssc |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | REL |
| Subject category code subdivision | 007050 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.895/4105414 |
| Edition information | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gerke, Barbara, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1966- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Long lives and untimely deaths : |
| Remainder of title | life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Barbara Gerke. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Boston : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Brill. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | c2012. |
| 300 ## - online resource | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) : |
| Other physical details | illustrations (some color), maps. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Brill's Tibetan studies library, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1568-6183 ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | v. 27 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills: The Socio-Political and Historical Background -- 3 Contextualising Tibetan Longevity Practices -- 4 Temporal Dimensions of Life-forces -- 5 Detecting the Life-forces in the Body and the Life-span in the Pulse -- 6 Merit, Karma, Liberating Animals, and the Five Astrological Factors -- 7 Untimely Deaths, Remaining, and Maximum Life-spans -- 8 Divining the Life-span -- 9 Ritual Layers of Long-life Empowerments -- 10 The Sakya Tshe dbang: An Ethnographic Account of a Long-life Empowerment -- 11 Summary and Conclusions -- Appendices -- Glossary of Recurrent Tibetan and Sanskrit Terms -- List of Tibetan Proper Names -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 506 ## - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain life-forces in various areas of knowledge. These life-forces follow daily, monthly, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are widely but varyingly used by Tibetans to assess the strength of life-forces and forecast difficult periods in their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are treated medically or through Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In all these events, temporality and agency are deeply interlinked in the ways in which Tibetans enhance their vitality, prolong their life-spans, and avoid ‘untimely deaths.’ |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Tibetans |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| -- | Darjeeling (District) |
| General subdivision | Social conditions. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Tibetans |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| -- | Darjeeling (District) |
| General subdivision | Religion. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Longevity |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| -- | Darjeeling (District) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Life span, Productive |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| -- | Darjeeling (District) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Old age |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| -- | Darjeeling (District) |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Darjeeling (India : District) |
| General subdivision | Religious life and customs. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Darjeeling (India : District) |
| General subdivision | Social life and customs. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Gerke, Barbara, 1966- |
| Title | Long lives and untimely deaths. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Boston : Brill, c2012 |
| Record control number | (DLC) 2011035141 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Brill's Tibetan Studies Library |
| Volume/sequential designation | 27. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223219. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004217485">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004217485</a> |
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