Siberian shamanistic traditions among the Kham Magar of Nepal

The Kham Magars are a people of ancient Mongolian descent inhabiting the upper tributaries of the Sani Bheri, Bari Gad and Mari Khola on the south western flank of the Dhaulagiri massif. They constitute a specific ethno-linguistic community within the four northern sub-tribes of the Magar people - the Bhuda (Bura), Gharti, Pun and Rokha. That is, in the west sector of the northern Magar homeland (separated from the eastern sector by three days of uninhabited territory), the people have retained an indigenous Tibeto-Burman language known as Kham, and it is these people who are referred to..