Download e-book for kindle: Tibetan Shamanism: Ecstasy and Healing by Larry Peters

By Larry Peters

ISBN-10: 1623170303

ISBN-13: 9781623170301

Reflecting 16 years of extensive fieldwork, this booklet is a wealthy chronicle of the day-by-day lives, trust structures, and therapeutic rituals of 4 hugely respected Tibetan shamans pressured into exile via the chinese language invasion in the course of the Fifties. Larry Peters lived and studied heavily with the shamans in Nepal, studying their trust approach, watching and collaborating of their rituals, and introducing many dozens of scholars to their worldview. together with photos of the shamans in ecstatic ritual and trance, this book—one of the main broad ethnographic works ever performed on Tibetan shamanism—captures the tip of Tibetan shamanism whereas establishing a window onto the tradition and traditions that survived centuries of assault in Tibet, in basic terms to die out in Nepal.

The violent remedy of shamans through the Buddhist lama has a protracted background in Tibet and neighboring Mongolia. At one element, shamans have been burned on the stake. notwithstanding, within the mountainous Himalayan terrain, specially within the tough to arrive parts geographically far-off from the Buddhist monastic city facilities, shamans have been revered and their paintings respected. Peters’s authoritative and meticulous examine into the assumption platforms of those final surviving representatives of the shamanic traditions of the distant Himalayas preserves, in bright element, the ideas of ecstasy, defined as pathways to the shamanic religious world.

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