Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal
by
Charles Ramble
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te's people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also exponents of a local religion that involves blood sacrifices...