So close to heaven : the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas
Crossette, Barbara
So close to heaven : the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas / Barbara Crossette. - New York : Vintage Books , 1995. - 297 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-283) and index.
For more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true to Tantric Buddhism. As she travels through Bhutan and its neighbors, Crossette introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity.
9780679743637
94038193
Buddhism
BQ400.H542 / C76 1995
294.3095 CRO
So close to heaven : the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas / Barbara Crossette. - New York : Vintage Books , 1995. - 297 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-283) and index.
For more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true to Tantric Buddhism. As she travels through Bhutan and its neighbors, Crossette introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity.
9780679743637
94038193
Buddhism
BQ400.H542 / C76 1995
294.3095 CRO
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