FROM BON TO BUDDHISM Social and Cultural Changes of the Tamangs

Abstract

Since the childhood grown up as a member of the Tamang community the present scholars have had the opportunity to observe the ambience of the Tamang cultural tradition from within From very tender age being influenced by Tamang culture and religion folktales songs and especially distinctive lifestyle which stirred enormous imagination as well as a lot of curiosity to explore the primitive culture in total of the same This led to the formulation of this thesis The present thesis may therefore be considered as the inevitable outcome of the very desire which was rooted in the imaginary world of the writer This burgeon may be considered as an outcome of empirical exploration and participatory observation of the culture of the Tamangs with a critical point of view The Tamangs are a primitive community settled in different parts of Nepal and India The social economic and religio cultural setting has great meaning to this community from time primordial The wave of transformation due to cultural milieu of Tibet and Nepal and later on Nepal and India is distinctly manifested in their life style and cultural pattern to which they have been newly accustomed