Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal

by Stan Royal Mumford

In the mountain valleys of Nepal, Tibetan communities have long been established through migrations from the North. Because of these migrations over the last few centuries, Tibetan lamaism, as one of the world's great ritual traditions, can be studied in the Himalayas as a process that emerges through dialogue with the more ancient shamanic tradition which it confronts and criticizes.
Here for the first time is a thorough anthropological study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029911984X
• ISBN13: 9780299119843
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"