This is a series of video & written quotes, from Hajura'āmā (Grandmother) Aama Bambo (Buddhi Maya Lama), who is a Jhankri (Shaman) of the Tamang Clan in Nepal.
Grandmother Buddhi Maya Lama, who is also known as Aama Bombo (Mother Shaman) was born into a poor family in Melong, Nepal in the Bagmati Zone. Her father was a famous shaman; her mother the second of his seven wives.
Grandmother Aama was born into the Tamang clan. The Tamang ancestry began in Tibet and is the largest ethnic group in Nepal. However, Tamang traditions prohibits women from practicing shamanism, something Aama had wanted to become since age 5. Her father also discouraged her dream of becoming a healer, so Anna had no way to develop her gifts.
When Aama was 10, her mother moved away, leaving Aama to be raised by her grandmother. At 16 years of age, Amma married and moved to Katmandu. Shortly after that, her father died.
When she was 25 year old, Grandmother Aama suddenly began to feel shaking sensations in her body. For fourteen months she visited doctors and healers, seeking a cure. The people around her believed she was becoming mentally ill and wanted to admit her to a psychiatric hospital. But, as a last resort, Grandmother Aama was taken to a Buddhist lama who uncovered the problem. Apparently, her father's spirit had been searching for someone through whom he could transmit his work, but the only person with a good enough heart was Grandmother Aama. So, despite Tamang traditions forbidding women shaman, her father's spirit accepted Aama as a healer. Soon Aama felt better. Since then, her father, the gods and the spirits began visiting her and teaching her their healing ways.
