So Close to Heaven The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas

Name: So Close to Heaven The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
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ISBN: 9780679743637

ISBN-10: 0679743634

ISBN-13: 9780679743637

Edition: N/A

Authors: Barbara Crossette

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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 neighbots, Crossette introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




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The Druk Gyalpo



Becoming Buddha



Before Tibet, There Was Bon



The Road from Lumbini



Ladakh: Eclipsed by Other Gods



Sikkim: “No One Heard Us Cry”



Buddhist Nepal



Buddha and the Bhutanese State



The Dragon People



All Sentient Beings



Aum Rinzi’s World



Two Capitals, Two Eras



To Tashigang



One Sunday in Bumthang An Afterthought


A Glossary of Common Words