The Thakali: a Himalayan ethnographyArchived 2017-02-15 at the वेबैक मशीन, Michael Vinding, Serindia Publications, Inc., 1998, ISBN 978-0-906026-50-2, ... When speaking in Nepali the Thakali usually refer to the dhom (and the aya lama) as jhakri. Although the dhom and the jhakri are both healers, the jhakri is a shaman: he is possessed by a superhuman spirit and goes into trance ...
An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, Christina Pratt, The Rosen Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4042-1140-7, ... Banjhakri is the forest shaman (ban-primitive, jhakri-shaman) who, with his lover/wife Banjhakrini, is the initiator of Tamang shamans ...
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The Thakali: a Himalayan ethnographyArchived 2017-02-15 at the वेबैक मशीन, Michael Vinding, Serindia Publications, Inc., 1998, ISBN 978-0-906026-50-2, ... When speaking in Nepali the Thakali usually refer to the dhom (and the aya lama) as jhakri. Although the dhom and the jhakri are both healers, the jhakri is a shaman: he is possessed by a superhuman spirit and goes into trance ...
