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Himalayan Buddhist Villages: Environment, Resources, Society and Religious Life in Zangskar, Ladakh
Author Crook, John (編) ; Osmaston, Henry (編)
VolumeSpecial Section
Date1994
Pages866
PublisherUniversity of Bristol
Publisher Url https://www.bristol.ac.uk/
LocationBristol, UK [布里斯托, 英國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
AbstractThis book contains extensive data of the villages of the Ladakh on the natural environment, the human development of these resources in agriculture and animal husbandry; demographic work, health and nutrition. History, social organisation and personal relationships, monastic life cultural tradition and economic change; marital patterns; conservation and development.
Table of contentsPREFACE The Zangskar Project John Crook xv
Acknowledgements xxi
List of Contributors xxiv
INTRODUCTION Henry Osmaston & John Crook xxv

PART1 ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND FARMING
Chapter 1 The Geology, Geomorphology and Quaternary History of Zangskar / Henry Osmaston 1
Chapter 2 Human Adaptation to Environment in Zangskar / Henry Osmaston, Janet Frazer and Stamati Crook 37
Chapter 3 The Tibetan Calendar and Astrology in the regulation of Zangskari agriculture / Tashi Rabgyas and Henry Osmaston 111
Chapter 4 Weights and Measures used in Ladadakh / Henry Osmaston and Tashi Rabgyas 121
Chapter 5 The Farming System / Henry Osmaston 139
Chapter 6 Animal Husbandry in Zangskar / Henry Osmaston, Rod Fisher, Janet Frazer and Tony Wilkinson 199
Chapter 7 Sha-de: meagre subsistence or Garden of Eden? / Henry Osmaston and John Crook 249
Chapter 8 Butter-trading down the Zangskar gorge: the winter journey / James Crowden 285

PART 2 DEMOGRAPHY, WORK AND HEALTH
Chapter 9 The Population of sTongde, Zangskar / Robert Attenborough 295
Chapter 10 Kumik: a demographic profile / Jonathan Elford 331
Chapter 11 Work Patterns in Two Zangskar Villages / Robert Attenborough 361
Chapter 12 Nutrition / R. Attenborough, M. Attenborough and A.R. Leeds 383
Chapter 13 Health in Zangskar / Keith Ball and Jonathan Elford 405

PART 3 HISTORY AND SOCIAL LIFE IN ZANGSKAR
Chapter 14 The History of Zangskar / John Crook 435
Chapter 15 Social Organisation and Personal Identity in Zangskar / John Crook 475
Chapter 16 Birth and Child Rearing in Zangskar / Helena Norberg-Hodge with Hazel Russell 519
Chapter 17 Zangskari Attitudes / John Crook 533

PART 4 MONASTIC LIFE AND VALUES
Chapter 18 Lamas of Zangskar and the origin of Tibetan studies in the West / Nawang Tsering Shakspo 553
Chapter 19 Monastic communities in Zangskar: location, function and organisation / John Crook and Tsering Shakya 559
Chapter 20 Monastic economics in Zangskar 1980 / Tsering Shakya, Tashi Rabgyas and John Crook 601
Chapter 21 The Essential Insight: a study of the central theme in the philosophical training of Mahayanist Monks / Tashi Rabgyas and John Crook 631
Chapter 22 The Yogins of Ladakh / John Crook 665

PART 5 TRADITION AND CHANGE
Chapter 23 Six Families of Leh / John Crook and Tsering Shakya 701
Chapter 24 Explaining Tibetan Polyandry: socio-cultural, demographic and biological perspectives / John Crook and Stamati Crook 735
Chapter 25Socio-economic transition in Zangskar: a developmental strategy / Sandhya Gokhale-Chatterji 787
Chapter 26 Tradition, Development and Conservation in Ladakh / John Crook 801

Indices
1. General 831
2. Place names (anglicised) 839
3. Lamas, kings and important people (Tibetan) 841
4. Tibetan Buddhist and monastic terms 843
5. Textual location of sources 845

Appendices
1. Personal names with anglicised and Tibetan spelling 847
2. Place names with anglicised and Tibetan spelling 849
3. Technical English - Zangskari vocabularies 854
ISBN9780862923860 (hbc); 0862923867 (hbc)
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