Title Fate of the Lhapa / by Sarah Sifers.

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[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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