HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Volume 26 Number 1 People and Environment: Conservation and Management of Natural Article 22 Resources across the Himalaya No. 1 & 2

2006

The Life and Revelations of translated by , forward by Gangteng ; reviewed by D. Phillip Stanley

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This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons@Macalester College at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. of its large alluvial plains, extensive irrigation institutional integrity that they have managed to networks, and relatively egalitarian land-ownership negotiate with successive governments in Kangra patterns, like other Himalayan communities it is also to stay self-organized and independent, and to undergOing tremendous socio-economic changes get support from the state for the rehabilitation of due to the growing influence of the wider market damaged kuhls. economy. Kuhl regimes are experiencing declining Among the half dozen studies of farmer-managed interest in farming, decreasing participation, irrigation systems of the Himalaya, this book stands increased conflict, and the declining legitimacy out for its skillful integration of theory, historically of customary rules and authority structures. grounded framework, and empirical evidence. Baker carefully documents the challenges, both Students and scholars concerned with the common endogenous and exogenous, faced by kuhl pool resources and common property regimes in the communities. He convincingly describes how the Himalaya and beyond will find this book valuable. changing institutional (e.g., the replacement of the Kohli or water-master by state-sponsored irrigation users committees) and socio-economic landscapes Milan Shrestha is a PhD candidate in anthropology at (e.g., non-farm employment, labor shortages) have the University of Georgia completing a dissertation on influenced some communities more than others. smallholders and land-use/cover change in the Nepal In general, however, the kuhl regimes of the valley Himalaya. have so successfully maintained physical and

THE LIFE AND REVELATIONS OF PEMA LINGPA

TRANSLATED BY SARAH HARDING, FORWARD BY GANGTENG RINPOCHE

The Bhutanese Buddhist master Perna Lingpa will rediscover it as Perna Lingpa. The Life and (1450-1521) is considered one of the Five Kings Revelations of The book is a collaborative effort. In addition to of the "Treasure-Finders" (terton, gter ston) in the Perna Lingpa the six translations by Sarah Harding that form the tradition of Tibetan . This book bulk and heart of the book, there is a foreward by contains translations of six texts related to Perna Gangteng Rinpoche, a brief preface by Sarah Hard- Translated by Sarah Lingpa, a history of the incarnations of Perna Lingpa ing, an extended introduction by Holly Gayley, and Harding, Forward by by the Eighth Sungtrul Rinpoche (1843-1891), and two appendices, one listing the incarnations of the Gangteng Rinpoche five texts from Perna Lingpa's treasure cycle, the Perna Lingpa tradition compiled by John Ardussi,