Lama clan (Tamang)

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Buddhist Lama of the Tamang People, Tistung, Nepal

The Lama of the

ancestor worship[1][2][3]
Additionally, other Swagen Bhai (Tamang kinship clans) perform priestly rituals, such as shaman Jhankris, but the Lama are most associated with priesthood.

This particular Swagen Bhai (kinship clan) of the Tamang are so associated with religion that all Tamangs are addressed as

Gurung, Sherpa
, etc. Nevertheless, only those of Swagen Bhai Lama are truly Lama. As with all Swagen Bhai, there are complex restrictions on intermarriage between kinship clans. The exact relationship between Bon Lamaism, their religion of antiquity that survives to modern times,
Khas-ization of all ethnic groups in Nepal,[4]
in addition to being the most connected to traditional religion of the Southern Himalayan region.

References

  1. ISBN 9780878083619
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  2. ^ "Nepal Ethnographic Museum". www.asia-planet.net. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  3. ^ "The Tamang People - The Blue Space Guides Nepal". Thebluespace.com. 2014-06-20. Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  4. ^ "Account Suspended". Nefin.org.np. Archived from the original on 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2015-12-23.


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