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100 1  Gerke, Barbara,|d1966-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/no2009072296 
245 10 Long lives and untimely deaths :|blife-span concepts and 
       longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills,
       India /|cby Barbara Gerke. 
264  1 Leiden :|bBRILL,|c2011. 
300    1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) :|billustrations 
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500    Part Five Tibetan Buddhist Long-life Empowerments. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Note on Previous Publications; Acknowledgements; List of 
       Maps and Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Notes on 
       Tibetan Terms and References; Maps; Part One Ethnographic 
       Settings and Analytical Frameworks; Chapter One 
       Introduction; 1. Outlining the Argument; 2. Organisation 
       of the Book; 3. Some Notes on Important Terms; 4. 
       Ethnographic Encounters; Monastics; The Lay Community; 
       Tibetan Medical Practitioners, Astrologers, and Diviners; 
       5. Documentation Methods and Challenges; 6. Analytical 
       Frameworks: The Anthropology of Time; Part Two The Field 
       Site and Tibetan Areas of Knowledge. 
505 8  Chapter Two Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills: The Socio-
       Political and Historical Background1. Historical and 
       Political Climates; 2. Demographic Data of Tibetans; 3. 
       The Reinvention of Ethnicity: Creating 'Cultural 
       Vibrancy'; 4. What Does it Mean to be a Tibetan in the 
       Darjeeling Hills?; 5. Tibetan Refugees; 6. Being Tibetan 
       Without Speaking Tibetan; 7. Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries;
       8. Tibetan Medical Healthcare; Chapter Three 
       Contextualising Tibetan Longevity Practices; 1. An 
       Exposition of Pertinent Tibetan Areas of Knowledge; 
       Tibetan Medicine; Tibetan Astrology; Divinations. 
505 8  Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist Longevity Rituals2. Knowing 
       about the Life-span; Part Three The Life-span and Life-
       forces in Tibetan Medical Contexts; Chapter Four Temporal 
       Dimensions of Life-forces; 1. The Three Nyes pa; 2. 
       Temporal Frameworks of the Three Nyes pa; 3. Temporalities
       and Treatment Schemes; 4. Appropriating the Auspicious: 
       The Best 'Life-force Days' and 'Life-essence Days'; 
       Chapter Five Detecting the Life-forces in the Body and the
       Life-span in the Pulse; 1. Bla and Its Places in the Body 
       in Tibetan Medical Texts and Clinical Practice. 
505 8  2. Divinatory and Temporal Aspects of Pulse Diagnosis3. 
       Rhythm of Pulse, Rhythm of Life; 4. Distilling the Supreme
       Radiance of Vitality; Part Four The Life-span in 
       Astrological and Divinatory Contexts; Chapter Six Merit, 
       Karma, Liberating Animals, and the Five Astrological 
       Factors; 1. Merit and Karma; 2. The Longevity Practice of 
       Liberating Animals; 3. Astrological Calculations Involving
       the Five Factors; The Tibetan Almanac; The Life-force & 
       the Body; Power, Prosperity, and Presence; Generating Good
       Fortune; 'Bla is the Mother of Srog'; 4. Jigme Lost His 
       Bla. 
505 8  Chapter Seven Untimely Deaths, Remaining, and Maximum Life
       -spans1. The 'Timely' Death of Samden; 2. A Family Story 
       of Short Lives; 3. Controlling Breath and the Maximum Life
       -span; 4. The Life-span is Completed; Chapter Eight 
       Divining the Life-span; 1. 'Your Life-span is Exhausted': 
       Momola's Rosary Divination; The Notion of Bar chad; 2. 
       Throwing the Dice: Textual Divination on Tshe and Srog; 
       The Palden Lhamo Divination; The Certainty of Uncertainty:
       Divinations on 'Whether Srog is Stable or Unstable'; 3. 
       Life-span Divination and Issues of Accuracy. 
520    How do Tibetans in India's Darjeeling Hills understand the
       life-span and various life-forces that influence 
       longevity? This book analyses ethnographic and textual 
       material demonstrating how Tibetans utilise temporal 
       frameworks in medical, astrological, divinatory, and 
       ritual contexts to locate and reckon life-forces 
       influencing their life-spans. 
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