Growing Up: Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Rituals Among Newar Children in Bhaktapur (Nepal) [With DVD]

by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels

The authors - an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) - are presenting the second part of a trilogy of studies of life-cycle rituals in Nepal, carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Ritual". The initiation of boys and girls of both Hindus and Buddhists of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley are documented. The first part of the book presents elements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447057521
• ISBN13: 9783447057523
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 10.1"