For the last twelve years, the physician and anthropologist Henry M. Vyner has been interviewing Tibetan Lamas for the purpose of developing an empirically valid theory of the defining characteristics
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In this superb and carefull chosen collection, KB Mahajan Provides the reader with simple tools to engage meaningfully with the world.The Selected quotations are powerful and current,offering a practi
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The opinions of what Buddhists believe concerning the great majority of their sE5tras and Tantras will change in the light of the many revelations presented in this series of works, the central pillar
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Everest. The word strikes a cord in the minds and hearts of people around the world, conjuring up images of a magnificent obelisk of rock and ice stretching so impossibly high i
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The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains wh
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- A brief Historical Background of the Caste Untouchability System
- The Emergence of the Caste System and Untouchability in Nepal
- Historical Development of the Nepali Dalit social Mo
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The Newars of Nepal are a people with a high degree of material culture and a distinctive social organisation. Though stray references on them are available from the pioneering accounts of Levi, Hodgs
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The original Dzogchen teachings are found equally in the old, unreformed Tibetan schools of the Buddhist Nyingmapas and the pre- Buddhist Bonpos. These teachings are substantially the same in both sch
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Brian Hodgson (1800-1896) lived in Nepal from 1820-1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics.
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Tibet is now open to anyone wishing to explore itsancient culture. This book, based on a nineteenth-century guide for Tibetan pilgrims by the renownedLama Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo, describes thelocation
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Kathmandu, Dec. 8: The book 'The Return of The Mauriyas' by Subodh Kumar Singh, launched in the capital Saturday reveals the genealogical linkage of the 'Thar
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The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten t
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"Very little is known about Nepal except for its beautiful mountains. Still less is known about its people, their poverty and underdevelopment and its fallout - the Maoist uprising. Even less has been
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"The Rulings of the Night offers something new to the anthropology of language and ritual. Built on impeccably careful fieldwork, and beautiful at times in its transparency, the book gets back to the
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