High religion: A cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism/
Sherry B. Ortner
- Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1989.
- xxi,245p. : ill. ; 24cm.
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