Growing up

Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Rituals among Newar Children in Bhaktapur (Nepal)

by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels, photographs by Christian Bau

Extent: 332 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions, Buddhist Studies

Series: Ethno-Indology

Series volume number: 6

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2008)

ISBN: 9783447057523

8.27 x 11.65 inches

Price: $90.00

In stock

Add to cart

Synopsis
Contributing Authors

The authors – an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) – are presenting the second part of a trilogy of studies of life-cycle rituals in Nepal, carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre “Dynamics of Ritual”. The initiation of boys and girls of both Hindus and Buddhists of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley are documented. The first part of the book presents elements of Newar rituals, the spatial background of Bhaktapur and the hierarchy of ritual specialists – illustrated by 21 maps. The second part documents with detailed descriptions the . rst feeding of solid food, birthday rituals, and pre-puberty rituals like the first shaving of the hair, the boy’s initiation with the loincloth (in Buddhist and Hindu contexts), the girl’s marriage with the bel fruit and the girl’s seclusion. One girl’s marriage (Ihi) and three boy’s initiations (Kaytapuja) are documented on a DVD. The third part presents the textual tradition: local handbooks and manuals used by the Brahmin priest to guide the rituals. Two of these texts are edited and translated to demonstrate the function of such texts in a variety of contexts.

By (author) Niels Gutschow
By (author) Axel Michaels
By (photographer) Christian Bau

Other Titles in this Series

Visualizing Space in Banaras

Images, Maps, and the Practice of Representation

Volume 4

edited by Martin Gaenszle and Jorg Gengnagel

The Goddess’s Embrace

Multifaceted Relations at the Ekamranatha Temple Festival in Kanchipuram

by Kerstin Schier

South Asian Festivals on the Move

Volume 13

edited by Ute Husken and Axel Michaels

Mimamsanyayasamgraha

A Compendium of the Principles of Mimamsa

Volume 5

by Mahadeva Vedantin, edited by James Benson

Hindu and Buddhist Initiations in India and Nepal

Volume 10

edited by Astrid Zotter and Christof Zotter

Visualized Texts

Sacred Spaces, Spatial Texts and the Religious Cartography of Banaras

Volume 7

by Jorg Gengnagel

Getting married

Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal

Volume 12

by Niels Gutschow, Axel Michaels and contributions by Manik Bajracharya and Tessa Pariyar

Of Death and Birth

Icakkiyamman, a Tamil Goddess, in Ritual and Story With a Film on DVD by the Author

Volume 8

by Barbara Schuler

Visnu’s Children

Prenatal life-cycle rituals in South India - DVD

Volume 9.2

by Ute Husken

Visnu’s Children

Prenatal life-cycle rituals in South India / Translated from German by Will Sweetman, with a DVD by Ute Husken und Manfred Kruger

Volume 9.1

by Ute Husken

Similar Books

Bias and the Middle Way

How to stop Absolutizing our Conditioned Assumptions

By (author) Robert M. Ellis

Fermented Dairy of Central Asia

By (author) Simi Rezai-Ghassemi

Selected Writings of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya

(Volume 2)

Edited by Elizabeth J. Harris Edited by John L. Crow

25 Years of Mokṣopāya Studies

Volume 10

Edited by Jürgen Hanneder

A Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume IV

Stod (Western Half)

By (author) John Vincent Bellezza

Buddhist Stone Sutras in China

Sichuan Province

Volume 6

Edited by Hua Sun Edited by Suey-Ling Tsai

Classical Art and Ancient India

Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Oxford, 21-22 March 2023

Edited by Peter Stewart

Gender in Gandharan Art

Representations and Interactions in the Buddhist Context (1st-4th centuries CE)

By (author) Ashwini Lakshminarayanan

Liberating the Repressed Self among Contemporary Chinese

A Theoretical Study Involving Tu Weiming and Jürgen Moltmann

Volume 41

By (author) Tsung-I Hwang

Muslim Atheism in Central Asia

Volume 5

By (author) Eren Tasar

Nuclear North Korea

Armed, Desperate and Unpredictable

By (author) Hwee-rhak Park

PATAN

Conservation at a World Heritage Site in Nepal

Contributions by Swosti Kayastha Contributions by Niels Gutschow Contributions by Bruno Maldoner Contributions by Raju…

Princely Archaeologies and Plural Sovereignties in Modern South Asia

Edited by Rafiullah Khan

Religious Super-diversity and Peacebuilding across Asia and its Diasporas

Edited by Alessandro Saggioro Edited by Carmelo Russo

Revelations in Japanese Archaeology

Paleolithic Come-back, Island Interactions, Classical Writings

Edited by Barbara Seyock Edited by Gina L. Barnes Edited by Fumiko Ikawa-Smith

Tattvārthā. Sthiramati’s Abhidharmakośaṭīkā, Chapter 1, Part I

Edited by Nobuchiyo Odani

The Identity at Death of the Old and Young from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages on the Southeast Asian Mainland

By (author) Kenneth William Ross

The Life of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya

(Volume 1)

By (author) Elizabeth J. Harris By (author) John L. Crow

The Lizhi 荔枝 (Lychee) in Chinese Literature

Translation of Chinese Sources by Michael J. Hagerty. With an introduction and edited by Hartmut Walravens

Volume 66

Edited by Hartmut Walravens

The Unofficial Buddhist

A Path Made by Walking

By (author) Robert Bluck

Yoga Breath

Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma in Early Modern Yoga

By (author) Magdalena Kraler

Aux Portes du ciel. La statuaire taoiste du Hunan

Art et anthropologie de la Chine

by Patrice Fava

Der altorientalische Mensch in seiner Umwelt

11. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft, 16.-19. Juni 2022 in Leipzig

Volume 11

Edited by Antonia Pohl Edited by Michael P. Streck

Der Königsgruftkomplex von Qaṭna. Teil 2: Die Grabkammern. Befund, Kontextualisierung, Interpretation

Mit Beiträgen von Carsten Witzel, Emmanuelle Vila, Tina Köster, Nicole Reifarth, Giulia Baccelli, Susanne Degenhardt, Marco Semmelroth, Stefan Flohr, Uwe Kierdorf, Michael Schultz und Fidaa Hlal

Volume 9

By (author) Heike Dohmann By (author) Peter Pfälzner By (author) Conrad Schmidt

Die große Reise über schmale Wege. Soras Aufzeichnungen und Bashōs “Oku no Hosomichi”

Volume 138

By (author) Robert F. Wittkamp

Die Idee eines weißen Australiens

Rassenideologien, „Biological Absorption Policy“ und die Theorie von den schwarzen Kaukasiern

By (author) Oliver Heis Edited by Heike Heis Edited by Reinhard Wendt

Eine Welt aus Tau

Japan: Rollbilder und Werke der Gegenwartskunst in der Sammlung Dr. Christiane Hackerodt

edited by Wilfried Kopke

Fundmunzen aus Usbekistan, Band 2

Schatzfunde kushano-sasanidischer Kupfermunzen und ihr Beitrag zur Kenntnis von Pragesystem und Geldumlauf im kushano-sasanidischen Herrschaftsbereich. In Kooperation mit Shakir Pidaev

Volume 557

by Nikolaus Schindel

Individualitat und Kollektivitat

Deutsche und japanische Perspektiven auf Recht, Kultur und Rechtskultur

edited by Tomoaki Kurishima, Daniel Wolff and Johannes Kaspar

La gestion de l’eau dans les civilisations de l’Asie

Actes du colloque international organisé par l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, la Société asiatique et le Collège de France à l'Institut des Civilisations du Collège de France et à l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, les 4 et

Edited by J.-M. Mouton Edited by N. Grimal