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

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

by Barbara Crossette
So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
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So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas

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

by Barbara Crossette

Overview

A travelogue of Bhutan and its neighbors in the Himalayas that introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity. "For anyone with a serious interest in Buddhism, it's essential reading" (Washington Post Book World).

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307801906
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/03/2011
Series: Vintage Departures
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Barbara Crossette, who joined the New York Times in 1973, spent seven years as a correspondent in Asia, and is now UN bureau chief. She was a Fulbright Professor of Journalism in India and has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at Princeton University. She won the 1991 George Polk Award for foreign reporting. She lives in New York City and Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

1. And Then There Was One
2. The Druk Gyalpo
3. Becoming Buddha
4. Before Tibet, There Was Bon
5. The Road from Lumbini
6. Ladakh: Eclipsed by Other Gods
7. Sikkim: “No One Heard Us Cry”
8. Buddhist Nepal
9. Buddha and the Bhutanese State
10. The Dragon People
11. All Sentient Beings
12. Aum Rinzi’s World
13. Two Capitals, Two Eras
14. To Tashigang
15. One Sunday in Bumthang

An Afterthought
A Glossary of Common Words
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