TY - BOOK AU - Childs,Geoff H. ED - ebrary Inc TI - Tibetan diary: from birth to death and beyond in a Himalayan valley of Nepal AV - GN635.C5 PY - 2004/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Ethnology KW - Nepal KW - Nubri KW - Philosophy Tibetan KW - Nubri Tibet KW - Religious life and customs KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index; 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/bilgi/Doc?id=10068597 ER -