Tibetan buddhist embodiment: The religious bodies of a deceased lama

Body and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-142

  Zivkovic, Tanya Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body; Buddhism; Embodiment; Intersubjectivity; Life after death

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954652963     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X10364770     Document Type: Article

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