High religion: A cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism/ Sherry B. Ortner

Chapter I
Introduction: The Project, the People, and the Problem
Who Are The Sherpas?
Fieldwork
Expanding Practice Theory
Chapter II
The Early History of the Sherpas: Fraternal Contradictions
Time Frame
The Sources
Migration, Settlement, and Subsistence
Family and Inheritance
EGALITARIANISM AND HIERARCHY: THE CORE
CONTRADICTION
INHERITANCE, ECONOMY, AND INEQUALITY i.'
Leadership and Power
Religion before the Temples
Chapter III
The Founding of the First Sherpa Temple: Political
Contradictions
Time Frame
The Novelty of Noncelibate Temples
The Stories of the First Founding
The Political Rivalry with Zongnamba
Contradictions of the Political Order
Chapter IV
The Meaning of Temple Founding: Cultural Schemas
Cultural Schemas
The Founding of Zhung Temple
The Schema
RITUALS FOR GAINING THE PROTECTION OF THE GODS
"grounding" the schema
Merit and Power
Chapter V
The Sherpas and the State
Time Frame
The Period before the Temples (7535—1720)
The Further Evil Ways of Zongnamba
The Gorkha Conquest and Long-Term State Interference
THE ENRICHMENT OF THE BIG PEOPLE ..
THE FOUNDING OF KHUMJUNG TEMPLE
CONTROLLING THE BIG PEOPLE
CHAPTER VI ' .
The Political Economy of Monastery Foundings 'n '
Time Frame
Getting Rich with the Raj and the Ranas
THE EFFECTS OF THE BRITISH IN DARJEELING IN THE
SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
TRADE AND PROFIT: THE FURTHER ENRICHMENT OF THE BIG
PEOPLE
The Continuing Contradictory Impact of the Nepal State
THE STATE AS A SOURCE OF WEALTH
MORE PEMBU CONFLICT
Further Political Erosion
Chapter VII
The Big People Found the Monasteries: Legitimation
and Self-Worth
Actors and Schemas
The Founding of Tengboche, 1916
karma as hero
THE LAMAS AND THE SCHEMA
BUILDING TENGBOCHE: 1916-1919
The Founding of Chiwong, 7923
BUILDING CHIWONG (1923-I929)
SANGYE AS HERO
Legitimation from the Big Point of Vieio: Prestige and Merit
Chapter VIII
The Small People
Who Are The Small People?
the SHERPAS IN THE LARGER ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF NEPAL
THE GENESIS OF SMALLNESS
MIGRATIONS
The Introduction of the Potato
Wage Labor and the Empowerment of the Small People
Founding the Monasteries: Feeling "Big"
Chapter IX
Monks and Nuns
Time Frame
The Founding of Devuche Nunnery
Who Are the Monks and Nuns?
THE MONKS AND NUNS AS LITTLE BIG PEOPLE
THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARRIAGE SQUEEZE
Rumbu Monastery and the Seeds of Monastic Rebellion
THE FOUNDING OF RUMBU
GELUNGMA PALMA AND MONASTICISM BY CHOICE
FOUNDING THE MONASTERIES
Revolution at Thami Temple
Chapter X
Conclusions: Sherpa History and a Theory of Practice