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Title Fate of the Lhapa / by Sarah Sifers.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2007.
Summary Fate of the Lhapa is a feature-length documentary about the last three Tibetan shamans (lhapas) living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. With no other descendants to carry on their healing practices and a younger generation attending schools, acculturating, and modernizing, these "sucking doctors" are practicing an endangered tradition.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language In Tibetan, Subtitles in English.
Subject Djwhal Khul.
Cultural change and history.
Buddhism.
Refugee camps.
Traditional medicine.
Healers.
Religious leaders.
Added Author Sifers, Sarah, producer, author.
Dhondup, Nyima, contributor.
Rhichoe, Pasang, contributor.
Karma Wangchuk, contributor.
Kanopy (Firm)
Music No. 1095724 Kanopy
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