The reader is taken on a journey to Dolpo, one of Nepal s remotest Tibetan enclaves with a large community that follow the Bon religion. The present ethnography regards the landscape of Dolpo as the temporary result of an ongoing cumulative cultural process that emerges from the interaction of the natural environment and the communities that inhabit it and endow it with meaning. Pilgrimage provides the key to structuring the book, which is based on anthropological research and the study of the textual legacy. Along the extensive and richly illustrated Bon pilgrimages through Dolpo, the...
The reader is taken on a journey to Dolpo, one of Nepal s remotest Tibetan enclaves with a large community that follow the Bon religion. The present e...