Original scientific paper
Religious Observances among the Buddhists in Mustang District, Nepal
Tomo Vinšćak
; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The research team from the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy's Ethnological Department was in August and September 1993 in Nepal. It was the first field research of that kind in more than three hundred-year-old history of the University of Zagreb conducted on the subcontinent of India. The team has spent a month in Nepalese Mustang District in the Himalayas, which is at the altitude of more than 3,000 meters. The main aim of the research was to explore ethnologically and to document audio-visually the traditional, originally Tibetan, way of life and Buddhist religion of people living in that part of the Himalayas. This paper is a result of both the author's own field research and the available bibliography.
Keywords
Nepal; Tibet; Buddhist religion; etnological research; bibliography; pre-Buddhist elements
Hrčak ID:
68235
URI
Publication date:
7.12.1995.
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