The Navel of the Demoness

by Charles Ramble

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195154142
• ISBN13: 9780195154146
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.