ISBN : 978-0-19-515414-6
Price : Rs 3600

This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te's people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also exponents of a local religion that involves blood
sacrifices to wild, unconverted territorial gods and goddesses. The village is unusual in the extent to which it has maintained its local autonomy and also in the degree to which both Buddhism and the cults of local gods have been subordinated to the pragmatic demands of the village community.

“The shaman who entertains the gods by dancing and music, is the same man who entertains the audience through the more performative aspects of the séance. Here, it is ordinary people who exploit the situation, coming to attend a performance that, in primis, has been organised for the gods.  A singular performance, to which, besides the chance of direct witness of the epiphany of gods, spirits and demons, is added the no less stimulating possibility of witnessing human destinies suspended over an uncertain fate”.

ISBN : 9789937506090
Price : Rs 600

Over the millennia, a still vibrant school of painting has been handed down in the female line in what used to be the ancient Kingdom of Mithila. Janakpur, located in the Terai region in southern Nepal, is thought to have been the capital of the kingdom of Mithila from its foundation. The paintings have the purpose of attracting the deity’s presence during the celebrations in his or her honour and a blessing on the family members of the house where they are painted.

Articles

Introduction | Shanker THAPA

Continuity and Changes in the Buddhism of Taiwan
| Anita SHARMA

rDzogs chen or Atiyoga:
The Tibetan Tradition of the Great Perfection
| Jean-Luc ACHARD

Thoughts and Historical Events: Self-Scepticism in UpaniF1ads
and Buddhist Concept of AnE4tman | Katrin SEELE

The Rise and Decline of Buddhism in Central Asia
| Keith A. LEITICH

Japanese Pure Land Buddhism:
Some Minor Movements in the Pure Land Tradition
| Ken’ichi MAEGAWA

Buddhism and the Mongolian People’s Republic:
The Remaking of Cultural Identity | Michael JERRYSON

The Buddhist Transformation of Silla Kingship:
Buddha as a King and King as a Buddha | Pankaj N. MOHAN

Gender in Indo -Tibetan Buddhism  | Serinity YOUNG

NewE4r Buddhism: The VajrayE4na Tradition of Nepal
| Shanker THAPA

Ven. Buddhabhadra and His Contributions in Buddhism
in 5th Century China | Vijay Kumar MANANDHAR