por pedroceinos | Abr 27, 2025 | bulang, ethnic-groups
The Bull that Shaped the World and Other Sacred Bovines among the Bulang Minority The Bull that Shaped the World and Other Sacred Bovines among the Bulang Minority The Bulang people (布朗族), an Austroasiatic ethnic group primarily inhabiting Yunnan’s tea-growing...
por pedroceinos | Abr 14, 2025 | ethnic-groups, yi
An Old Book on the Sani-Yi Minority An Old Book on the Sani-Yi Minority One may wonder whether it makes any sense to read, in the first decades of the 21st century, a book written at the end of the 19th. Clearly, the person who has spent some of their time translating...
por pedroceinos | May 11, 2021 | ethnic-groups, tibetans
Wonderful- yaks most precious treasure is their manure Wonderful- yaks most precious treasure is their manure Most of the travelers who visited Tibet in former times noticed the importance that, for the maintenance of the living of the Tibetan nomads...
por pedroceinos | Mar 25, 2021 | books, ethnic-groups, tibetans
Life of Milarepa, the hermit poet Life of Milarepa, the hermit poet. MiIarepa is one of the most beloved religious leaders of Tibet. His story, full of unique facts, has been told again and again over the centuries, and if the publishers did not warn that this is the...
por pedroceinos | Mar 21, 2021 | ethnic-groups, yi
The first description of the Religion of the Yi The first description of the Religion of the Yi By Father François Louis Crabouillet in 1872. The religion of the Lolos[i] is that of sorcerers: it consists only of conjurations of evil spirits, according to them, the...
