Navel of the Demoness

This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "Tibetanized" region of northern Nepal. While Te''s people are nominally Buddhist, and engage the services of resident Tibetan Tantric priests for a range of rituals, they are also exponents of a local religion that involves blood sacrifices to wild, unconverted territorial gods and goddesses. The village is unusual in the extent to whi...