High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism

Cover page
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography
Dramatis Personae
Chronology of Sherpa History
Chapter I: Introduction: The Project, the People, and the Problem
	Who Are The Sherpas?
	Fieldwork
	Expanding Practice Theory
Chapter II: The Early History of the Sherpas: Fraternal Contradictions
	Time Frame
	The Sources
	Migration, Settlement, and Subsistence
	Family and Inheritance
		Egalitarianism and Hierarchy: The Core Contradiction
		Inheritance, Economy, and Inequality
	Leadership and Power
	Religion before the Temples
Chapter III: The Founding of the First Sherpa Temple: Political Contradictions
	Time Frame
	The Novelty of Noncelibate Temples
	The Stories of the First Founding
	The Political Rivalry with Zongnamba
	Contradictions of the Political Order
Chapter IV: The Meaning of Temple Founding: Cultural Schemas
	Cultural Schemas
	The Founding of Zhung Temple
	The Schema
		Rituals for Gaining the Protection of the Gods
		Grounding The Schema
	Merit and Power
Chapter V: The Sherpas and the State
	Time Frame
	The Period before the Temples (1533-1720)
	The Further Evil Ways of Zongnamba
	The Gorkha Conquest and Long-Term State Interference
		The Enrichment of the Big People
		The Founding of Khumjung Temple
		Controlling the Big People
Chapter VI: The Political Economy of Monastery Foundings
	Time Frame
	Getting Rich with the Raj and the Ranas
		The Effects of the British in Darjeeling in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
		Trade and Profit: The Further Enrichment of the Big People
	The Continuing Contradictory Impact of the Nepal State
		The State as a Source of Wealth
		More Pembu Conflict
	Further Political Erosion
Chapter VII: The Big People Found the Monasteries: Legitimation and Self-Worth
	Actors and Schemas
	The Founding of Tengboche, 1916
		Karma as Hero
		The Lamas and the Schema
		Building Tengboche: 1916-1919
	The Founding of Chiwong, 1923
		Building Chiwong (1923-1929)
		Sangye as hero
	Legitimation from the Big Point of View: Prestige and Merit
Chapter VIII: The Small People
	Who Are The Small People?
		The Sherpas in the Larger Economic Context of Nepal
		The Genesis of Smallness
		Migrations
	The Introduction of the Potato
	Wage Labor and the Empowerment of the Small People
	Founding the Monasteries: Feeling \"Big\"
Chapter IX: Monks and Nuns
	Time Frame
	The Founding of Devuche Nunnery
	Who Are the Monks and Nuns?
		The Monks and Nuns as Little Big People
		The Nineteenth-Century Marriage Squeeze
	Rumbu Monastery and the Seeds of Monastic Rebellion
		The Founding of Rumbu
		Gelungma Palma and Monasticism by Choice
		Founding the Monasteries
	Revolution at Thami Temple
Chapter X: Conclusions: Sherpa History and a Theory of Practice
Appendix I: Two Zombie Stories of Early Khumbu
Appendix II: Addendum to the Tengboche Chayik
Notes
Glossary
References
Index