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050	0	0	_aBQ400.H542 _bC76 1995
082	0	0	_a294.3095 CRO
100	1		_aCrossette, Barbara
245	1	0	_aSo close to heaven _b: the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas _c/ Barbara Crossette.
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 1995.
300			_a297 p. _b: ill., map _c; 21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-283) and index.
520			_aFor 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.
650		0	_aBuddhism
942			_cMO
999			_c270330 _d270330