Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

by Robert Desjarlais

Book Overview

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 from Nepal. He studies the death preparations of the Hyolmo, their specific rituals of grieving, and the practices they use to heal the psychological trauma...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022635587X
• ISBN13: 9780226355870
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"