... chthonic divinities and exorcise harmful agents, and shamanic bombo who recapture lost shadow souls, revive life-force, unveil an enigmatic divine, and reveal. Interpretations of religion in Nepal have treated divergent ritual strands as isolates, and there is a persistent image of the religious situation...

.... Without apparent contradiction, western Tamang simultaneously engage Buddhist lamas who preside over elaborate rites of death, sacrificial lambu who propitiate chthonic divinities and exorcise harmful agents, and shamanic bombo who recapture lost shadow souls, revive life-force, unveil an enigmatic divine...

... and ritual relationships among three classes of Tamang religious practitioners: lamas and their Tibetan-derived rituals, Iambus and their sacrificial propitiation of local divinities, and bombos and their shamanic rituals. Each of these practitioners is concerned with distinct domains which, when related...