The Rise of the House of Gorkha
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Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2017 |
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ISBN | : 9789937711005 |
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Total Pages | : 391 |
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Author | : Ludwig F. Stiller |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780785502647 |
Author | : Ludwig F. Stiller |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780897710695 |
Author | : Ludwig F. Stiller |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nepal |
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Author | : Ludwig F. Stiller (s.j.) |
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Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Ludwig F. Stiller |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Headline |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472202600 |
Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with acts of incredible bravery and sacrifice. Their reputation as fearsome fighting men remains undisputed and the mere threat of their kukri knives has put the fear of God into opposing forces throughout the world. John Parker's book is a fascinating testimony to the Gurkhas - a fighting force that stands dramatically apart in British military history.
Author | : Ernest Gellner |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521424349 |
A collection of essays concerned with some key problems in the study of philosophy, politics and society.
Author | : Anne T. Mocko |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0190275227 |
"This book examines how public ritual once placed kings at the privileged apex of Nepal's government, and how in the 21st century those same rituals stopped serving the king and turned instead to authorize party-based politicians. Ritual upheaval undermined the institutional logic of monarchy, and demonstrated that kingship was contingent/dispensable"--
Author | : Lauren Leve |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2016-08-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317308913 |
Theravada Buddhism has experienced a powerful and far-reaching revival in modern Nepal, especially among the Newar Buddhist laity, many of whom are reorganizing their lives according to its precepts, practices and ideals. This book documents these far-reaching social and personal transformations and links them to political, economic and cultural shifts associated with late modernity, and especially neoliberal globalization. Nepal has changed radically over the last century, particularly since the introduction of liberal democracy and an open-market economy in 1990. The rise of lay vipassana meditation has also dramatically impacted the Buddhist landscape. Drawing on recently revived understandings of ethics as embodied practices of self-formation, the author argues that the Theravada turn is best understood as an ethical movement that offers practitioners ways of engaging, and models for living in, a rapidly changing world. The book takes readers into the Buddhist reform from the perspectives of its diverse practitioners, detailing devotees' ritual and meditative practices, their often conflicted relations to Vajrayana Buddhism and Newar civil society, their struggles over identity in a formerly Hindu nation-state, and the political, cultural, institutional and moral reorientations that becoming a "pure Buddhist"—as Theravada devotees understand themselves—entails. Based on more than 20 years of anthropological fieldwork, this book is an important contribution to scholarly debates over modern Buddhism, ethical practices, and the anthropology of religion. It is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Religion, Anthropology, Buddhism and Philosophy.