Twenty years after the publication of Martin Brauen’s unsurpassed study on death customs in Ladakh (1982), it seemed useful to the author of this paper to find out if funerary practices had undergone any changes in the course of their history in Indian and Nepalese Tibet and to compare some of his own findings with data collected in central Tibet. For that purpose he carried out field work in Ladakh (2002 and 2003) as well as Lahul, Spiti and Kunuvar (2003) under the sponsorship of the University of Bologna, as part of an interdisciplinary research project involving also the universities of Turin, Milan and Venice: “Places of the Living. Places of the Dead”. In addition, he was able to collect data on sky burial in central Tibet (2004).
E. Lo Bue (2009). Notes on Sky-Burial in Indian, Chinese and Nepalese Tibet. PISA - ROMA : Fabrizio Serra.
Notes on Sky-Burial in Indian, Chinese and Nepalese Tibet
LO BUE, ERBERTO
2009
Abstract
Twenty years after the publication of Martin Brauen’s unsurpassed study on death customs in Ladakh (1982), it seemed useful to the author of this paper to find out if funerary practices had undergone any changes in the course of their history in Indian and Nepalese Tibet and to compare some of his own findings with data collected in central Tibet. For that purpose he carried out field work in Ladakh (2002 and 2003) as well as Lahul, Spiti and Kunuvar (2003) under the sponsorship of the University of Bologna, as part of an interdisciplinary research project involving also the universities of Turin, Milan and Venice: “Places of the Living. Places of the Dead”. In addition, he was able to collect data on sky burial in central Tibet (2004).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
