Tibetan Shamanism: Ecstasy and Healing by Larry Peters

March 16, 2017 adminReligious Spiritual Eastern Philosophy

By Larry Peters

Reflecting 16 years of in depth fieldwork, this ebook is a wealthy chronicle of the day-by-day lives, trust platforms, and therapeutic rituals of 4 hugely respected Tibetan shamans pressured into exile by way of the chinese language invasion throughout the Fifties. Larry Peters lived and studied heavily with the shamans in Nepal, studying their trust procedure, watching and taking part of their rituals, and introducing many dozens of scholars to their worldview. together with pictures of the shamans in ecstatic ritual and trance, this book—one of the main large ethnographic works ever performed on Tibetan shamanism—captures the top of Tibetan shamanism whereas starting a window onto the tradition and traditions that survived centuries of assault in Tibet, basically to die out in Nepal.

The violent therapy of shamans by way of the Buddhist lama has a protracted heritage in Tibet and neighboring Mongolia. At one element, shamans have been burned on the stake. despite the fact that, within the mountainous Himalayan terrain, in particular within the tricky to arrive components 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 idea structures of those final surviving representatives of the shamanic traditions of the distant Himalayas preserves, in vibrant element, the suggestions of ecstasy, defined as pathways to the shamanic non secular world.

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