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Death Rites and Death Beliefs of a Village Bön Tradition in Dolpo
Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1.3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of Asian and African Studies), language: English, abstract: This Master’s thesis explores the intersection of ritual, belief, and social structure in the Yungdrung Bön tradition as practiced in Tsho (common name: Ringmo), a village in Dolpo, Nepal. Combining anthropological fieldwork with religious and philosophical analysis, it provides a detailed examination of death rituals, their meanings, and their roles in the community. The research, conducted through interviews and participant observation during field visits between 2017 and 2018, contextualize...
The Trail to Kanjiroba
A revitalizing new perspective on Earthcare from Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys. In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth; he sought a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. A...
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High Frontiers
This is an ethnographic and ecological history of Dolpo, a culturally Tibetan region in western Nepal. Bauer describes Dolpo since the 1950s and traces how pastoralists living in the trans-Himalaya have adapted to sweeping changes in their economic, political and cultural circumstances.
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