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ISBN/UID: 9780691028439
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 21 September 1989
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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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269 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691028439
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 21 September 1989
Description
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 ...