Waiting at the Mountain Pass: Coming to Terms with Solitude, Decline, and Death in Tibetan Exile

This monograph explores aging and dying among elderly Tibetans living in exile in India through intimate friendships with the elderly Tibetans stretching over five years. It explores the interrelations of body and mind, society and individual, and the real and the imagined, and provides a sensorial and compassionate understanding of the singularities of life and death in a Tibetan Buddhist world.