Ritual Period
A Comparative Study of Three Newar Buddhist Menarche Manuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11015685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christoph Emmrich (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-103 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00856401.2014.873109 |
| OpenAlex | W2002941000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Continuing further on the path laid out by Michael Allen's pioneering work on rituals that centre on Newar Buddhist girl children in Nepal, this study analyses liturgies pertaining to a religious practice called ‘bārhā pikāyagu’ that ends a period of seclusion undergone by Newar girls before menarche. The article looks at three ritual manuals currently used by Buddhist priests in Lalitpur, Kathmandu and Bhaktapur, respectively. In its aim to supply a textual background to Allen's ethnography of this ritual, the study tries to place these manuals at the conjunction of other ritual textual genres, such as prescriptions for domestic rituals for women that include cosmological, demonological and pregnancy-related aspects, and attempts to explore their composition, their intention and their place within the larger ritual literature of Buddhism among the Newars
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Girl · Menarche · Period (music · Seclusion · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nepal
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |