Disciples of a crazy saint
Subtitle: the Buchen of Spiti
By: Patrick Sutherland & Tashi Tsering
Contributors: Tashi Tsering Josayma, author; Pitt Rivers Museum
Publisher: Pitt Rivers Museum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780902793514
Subjects: Ethnology; Photography in ethnology; Exorcism; Religious drama; Religious life and customs; Buddhism; Ritus; Theater; Tibetischer Buddhismus
Description: Illustrated study of the "crazy saint" (onpa ; Tibetan: smyon pa) tradition as practiced by lay religious practitioners (buchen) in Spiti, in the Himalayan region of northwestern India; also includes article by Tashi Tsering (Amnye Machen Institute) on the origin of the Bla ma manipa (Tibetan: bla ma ma ṇi pa) storytellers.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2011 to accompany the exhibition 'Disciples of a Crazy Saint: The Buchan of Spiti' at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 9 December 2010 - 3 July 2011"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Photographing the Buchen  -- Patrick Sutherland; title: Preliminary notes on the origin of the Bla ma manipa storytellers and their fate in exile today -- Tashi Tsering.