Childs, Geoff H.,  1963- <br/><br/>
Tibetan diary :  from birth to death and beyond in a Himalayan valley of Nepal / 
Geoff Childs. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2004. 
 - xi, 217 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index. 
<br/><br/>Raising the curtain -- The lay of the land -- Life begets death, death begets life : the life course begins -- Adolescent discord : family needs versus spiritual deeds -- Growing through travel : the pilgrimage for knowledge and prestige -- The merits of matrimony : commencing the householder life -- High peaks and deep valleys : the imponderable nature of everyday life -- Anticipating the end of the life course : the anxieties of old age -- Parting breaths : death is but a transition -- Transcending death : rising corpses and reincarnations. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Nepal--Nubri<br/>Philosophy Tibetan
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Nubri Tibet--Religious life and customs<br/>Nubri Tibet--Social life and customs
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN635.C5