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Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern India /
From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Map
- Introduction
- 1: Nun's tale
- 2: Dancer of Kannur
- 3: Daughters of Yellamma
- 4: Singer of Epics
- 5: Red Fairy
- 6: Monk's tale
- 7: Maker of idols
- 8: Lady Twilight
- 9: Song of the Blind Minstrel
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.