So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas: Vintage Departures
Autor Barbara Crossetteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 1996
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780679743637
ISBN-10: 0679743634
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16 B&W PHOTOS AND 1 MAP
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Seria Vintage Departures
ISBN-10: 0679743634
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16 B&W PHOTOS AND 1 MAP
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Seria Vintage Departures
Recenzii
"There is no other full-length contemporary American account of this likable and largely unvisited kingdom....Crosette unravels the intricacies of Buddhism with considerable clarity."--The New York Times Book Review
Cuprins
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
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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Tantric Buddhism, with its complex and fascinating rites, rose to its highest levels on the trans-Himalayan Tibetan plateau, where it had flowered since the eighth century. But now the small kingdoms - Sikkim and Ladakh among them - where the teachings and miracles of the great lamas were revered have been gobbled up by bigger powers. The story of that loss is a prelude to Barbara Crossette's richly evocative journey into the historical past and courageous present of Bhutan, where the Buddhist world can still be seen intact, peaceful, harmonious - and threatened. We enter a landscape of frozen peaks, high windy flatlands, and deep verdant valleys where, until the 1960s, the Bhutanese lived a medieval existence - where temples and monasteries, monks and lamas, provided not only spiritual but legal and even medical sustenance. We move through farmlands, villages, and towns whose clusters of painted ornamental buildings and wooden half-timberings might be illustrations for old fairy tales, where thanks to Bhutan's devoted rulers change has thus far been gradual; where the tolerance, good humor, generosity - and gorgeous ritual - of Himalayan Buddhism continues to shine through. Into this setting creep the tensions, deep and destructive, that threaten to wound Bhutan despite its best efforts to ward off the outside world. We see how open borders and recent air links have led to high-stakes smuggling of temple treasures and gold, as well as the ravages of AIDS; how tourism is importing dollars, distance from village roots, and a new urban phenomenon - burglary.
Notă biografică
Barbara Crossette