Materials for the Study of Gurung Pe, Volume II

by Simon Strickland

Spoken in the middle hills of Nepal, Gurung is a Tibeto-Burmese language spread along the southern slopes of the Himalayas. The Nepalese Gurung recitations known as pe or pe-da lu-da form a diverse group of oral narratives and invocations, thought to exemplify ritual utterances from the origin of Bon. The pe are performed by a medicine man or shaman, in collaboration with a priest, to promote health and prosperity, and to help...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984331
• ISBN13: 9780674984332
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 915 Pages