Fate of the Lhapa
(2014, original release: 2007)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1095724
LANGUAGE
Tibetan
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Title from title frames

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

Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2007

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In Tibetan, Subtitles in English

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