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So close to heaven : the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas / Barbara Crossette.

By:

Crossette, Barbara

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1995.Description: 297 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN:

9780679743637

Subject(s):

Buddhism

DDC classification:

294.3095 CRO

LOC classification:

BQ400.H542 C76 1995

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	294.3095 CRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		039088

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.

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