Kirat Mundhum (Paperback)

Nawa Raj Subba

ISBN 13: 9798290225487

Editore: Independently Published, 2025

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Paperback. 'Kirat Mundhum: Of Earth and Ancestors' tracks Kirat people, an indigenous Himalayan civilisation that existed even before Vedic civilisation and whose culture forms identities today. The book relates the spiritual and cultural recollection of a group of people whose set of worldviews is basically naturalistic, genealogical, and cosmic, according to the oral tradition, mythic narrative, archaeological evidence, and ritual customs. There are nine chapters of the book, and the book starts with a close examination of the geographical ancestry of Kirats and old dynasties. It analyses their active interactions with other civilisations around them, including the Vedic culture, through written and oral accounts. The evidence suggests that the Kirats remain inseparable from their homelands, sacred forests, and the natural order. Kirat's theology centres on worshipping nature, making contact with spirits, and believing in ancestors. The spiritual organisation of the Kirat religion is exposed even in the literature, laying stress especially on such names of deities as Yuma Sammang, Theba Sammang, and 'Tangri, as well as birth, death, and reincarnation. The Kirat people construct this cosmology by utilising prayers, mantras, and myths found in their holy oral literature, Mundhum. The text says that other ritualists, such as the Nackhong, Samba, and Phedang, govern the physical and the spiritual worlds. The book discusses the religions, languages, oral literature, dances, folklore, social organisations, and exclusive ecological knowledge of the Kirat people. The book discusses these traditions in terms of their past and present, as well as a worldview hypothesis that emphasises harmony and reciprocity with the planet. The ancient yet crucial theory of equilibrium includes the concept of balance in the universe, the existence of an equilibrium between the intangible and physical, the idea of cosmic balance, Tong sum, Tong shim, and the role of Samba as a ceremonial technician.The latter chapters are about cultural revival and religious reform among the Kirat people, modern-day education and technology, and political identity. This work critically analyses modern efforts to preserve and reuse Kirat religious practices in the context of globalisation, environmental destruction, and cross-generational shifts, presenting Kirat cosmology as a form of environmental learning and spiritual modification. The present work, with its appendices of a select bibliography, glossary, and transliteration of ancient mantras, is a tribute but also a contribution to the scholarship of a living native traditionalism named Kirat: of earth and ancestors. The book is highly needed by a reader who would like to hear about indigenous research and spiritual ecology, Himalayan history, and the validity of ancestral knowledge systems in the 21st century. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Kirat Mundhum (Paperback)
• Editore: Independently Published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798290225487
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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‘Kirat Mundhum: Of Earth and Ancestors’ tracks Kirat people, an indigenous Himalayan civilisation that existed even before Vedic civilisation and whose culture forms identities today. The book relates the spiritual and cultural recollection of a group of people whose set of worldviews is basically naturalistic, genealogical, and cosmic, according to the oral tradition, mythic narrative, archaeological evidence, and ritual customs.

There are nine chapters of the book, and the book starts with a close examination of the geographical ancestry of Kirats and old dynasties. It analyses their active interactions with other civilisations around them, including the Vedic culture, through written and oral accounts. The evidence suggests that the Kirats remain inseparable from their homelands, sacred forests, and the natural order.

Kirat's theology centres on worshipping nature, making contact with spirits, and believing in ancestors. The spiritual organisation of the Kirat religion is exposed even in the literature, laying stress especially on such names of deities as Yuma Sammang, Theba Sammang, and 'Tangri, as well as birth, death, and reincarnation. The Kirat people construct this cosmology by utilising prayers, mantras, and myths found in their holy oral literature, Mundhum. The text says that other ritualists, such as the Nackhong, Samba, and Phedang, govern the physical and the spiritual worlds.

The book discusses the religions, languages, oral literature, dances, folklore, social organisations, and exclusive ecological knowledge of the Kirat people. The book discusses these traditions in terms of their past and present, as well as a worldview hypothesis that emphasises harmony and reciprocity with the planet. The ancient yet crucial theory of equilibrium includes the concept of balance in the universe, the existence of an equilibrium between the intangible and physical, the idea of cosmic balance, Tong sum, Tong shim, and the role of Samba as a ceremonial technician.
The latter chapters are about cultural revival and religious reform among the Kirat people, modern-day education and technology, and political identity. This work critically analyses modern efforts to preserve and reuse Kirat religious practices in the context of globalisation, environmental destruction, and cross-generational shifts, presenting Kirat cosmology as a form of environmental learning and spiritual modification.

The present work, with its appendices of a select bibliography, glossary, and transliteration of ancient mantras, is a tribute but also a contribution to the scholarship of a living native traditionalism named Kirat: of earth and ancestors. The book is highly needed by a reader who would like to hear about indigenous research and spiritual ecology, Himalayan history, and the validity of ancestral knowledge systems in the 21st century.