
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
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- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Orthographic Note
- Introduction. Lament for Pasang
- Chapter One. Sherpas ih Mirrors
- Chapter Two. Making Modern Sherpas
- Chapter Three. Buddhist Sherpas as Others
- Chapter Four. The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas
- Chapter Five. Seduction and Simulative Power in the Himalayas: Staying Sherpa
- Conclusion. Virtual Sherpas in Circulation
- Appendix A. Khentse Rinpoche Lecture, Tengboche, 1987
- Appendix B. Excerpts from "The Stages of Repelling Demons Based on the Heart Sutra, the Summary of the Vast, Intermediate, and Condensed Mothers," translated by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
- Appendix C. Musings on Textuality and Truth
- Appendix D. Production/Seduction
- Notes
- Glossary of Sherpa Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
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