Tibetan diary: from birth to death and beyond in a Himalayan valley of Nepal
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Berkeley
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University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 195-211( and index
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Geoff Childs
CONTENTS NOTE
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Raising the curtain -- The lay of the land -- Life begets death, death begets life : the life course begins -- Adolescent discord : family needs versus spiritual deeds -- Growing through travel : the pilgrimage for knowledge and prestige -- The merits of matrimony : commencing the householder life -- High peaks and deep valleys : the imponderable nature of everyday life -- Anticipating the end of the life course : the anxieties of old age -- Parting breaths : death is but a transition -- Transcending death : rising corpses and reincarnations