Subject to death : life and loss in a Buddhist world

Subject to death : life and loss in a Buddhist world / Robert Desjarlais.

"If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists, an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people f...

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Main Author: Desjarlais, Robert R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Death > Social aspects > Nepal > Helmu.
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) > Religion.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • I. The impermanence of life
  • II. Passing from the body
  • III. Dissolution
  • IV. Transmutations
  • V. After life
  • Postscript: Beyond description.

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