Crossette, Barbara <br/><br/>
So close to heaven  : the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas 
/ Barbara Crossette. 
 - New York  : Vintage Books  , 1995. 
 - 297 p.  : ill., map  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-283) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780679743637 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94038193 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buddhism
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BQ400.H542  / C76 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.3095 CRO