Drums and Syringes Oxford University Press This chapter represents a revision

This chapter represents a revision of Hirano [2006b]

Balancing an excess

The discussion focuses on crucial doctrines of theism and brings to light for the first time the striking parallelisms of thought between Madhva and his Western contemporary St

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My experience has shown that a selection of Upanishads texts has a better chance of arousing students' interest in the enormously rich tradition of Vedic language and literature

Drums and Syringes Oxford University Press This chapter represents a revisionThe following account is based on twenty two months of fieldwork in Nepal, between January 1989 and March 1992. I am trained as a nurse and was one of the expatriates working with a British nongovernmental organization (the Britain Nepal Medical Trust; BNMT) which ran a health project in Eastern Nepal. The backbone of this was a TB control program covering eight hill districts. My position differed from the other expatriates in that I was seconded by