Fate of the Lhapa
(2014, original release: 2007)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 70 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1095724
LANGUAGE
Tibetan
NOTES
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