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024 7 _a10.1163/9789004217485
_2DOI
035 _a(OCoLC)778434347
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082 0 4 _a305.895/4105414
_223
100 1 _aGerke, Barbara,
_d1966-
245 1 0 _aLong lives and untimely deaths :
_blife-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India /
_cby Barbara Gerke.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBrill.
264 4 _cc2012.
300 _a1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) :
_billustrations (some color), maps.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aBrill's Tibetan studies library,
_x1568-6183 ;
_vv. 27
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary 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 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aLongevity 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 _aTibetans
_zIndia
_zDarjeeling (District)
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aTibetans
_zIndia
_zDarjeeling (District)
_xReligion.
650 0 _aLongevity
_zIndia
_zDarjeeling (District)
650 0 _aLife span, Productive
_zIndia
_zDarjeeling (District)
650 0 _aOld age
_zIndia
_zDarjeeling (District)
651 0 _aDarjeeling (India : District)
_xReligious life and customs.
651 0 _aDarjeeling (India : District)
_xSocial life and customs.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aGerke, Barbara, 1966-
_tLong lives and untimely deaths.
_dBoston : Brill, c2012
_w(DLC) 2011035141
830 0 _aBrill's Tibetan Studies Library
_v27.
830 0 _aAsian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223219.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004217485
999 _c12462
_d12462