White Lama – Theos Bernard, Tibet and Yoga in America
Autor Paul Hacketten Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 apr 2012
Based on thousands of primary sources and rare archival materials, Theos Bernard, the White Lama recounts the real story behind the purported adventures of this iconic figure and his role in the growth of America's religious counterculture. Over the course of his brief life, Bernard met, associated, and corresponded with the major social, political, and cultural leaders of his day, from the Regent and high politicians of Tibet to saints, scholars, and diplomats of British India, from Charles Lindbergh and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Gandhi and Nehru. Although hailed as a brilliant pioneer by the media, Bernard also had his flaws. He was an entrepreneur propelled by grandiose schemes, a handsome man who shamelessly used his looks to bounce from rich wife to rich wife in support of his activities, and a master manipulator who concocted his own interpretation of Eastern wisdom to suit his ends. Bernard had a bright future before him, but disappeared in India during the communal violence of the 1947 Partition, never to be seen again.
Through diaries, interviews, and previously unstudied documents, Paul G. Hackett shares Bernard's compelling life story, along with his efforts to awaken America's religious counterculture to the unfolding events in India, the Himalayas, and Tibet. Hackett concludes with a detailed geographical and cultural trace of Bernard's Indian and Tibetan journeys, which shed rare light on the explorer's mysterious disappearance.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780231158862
ISBN-10: 0231158866
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Columbia University Press
ISBN-10: 0231158866
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Columbia University Press
Notă biografică
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Life in the Desert
2. New York and New Mexico
3. Two Parallel Paths (I)
4. Two Parallel Paths (II)
5. On Holy Ground
6. Pretense and Pretext: Studies in India
7. A Well-Trodden Path: Studies in Darjeeling and Sikkim
8. Tibet, Tantrikas, and the Hero of Chaksam Ferry
9." The Clipper Ship of the Imagination"
10. Yoga on Fifth Avenue
11. Tibetland and the Penthouse of the Gods
12. To Climb the Highest Mountains
13. The Aftermath
14. Postscript: The View from Ki, Sixty Years Later
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Life in the Desert
2. New York and New Mexico
3. Two Parallel Paths (I)
4. Two Parallel Paths (II)
5. On Holy Ground
6. Pretense and Pretext: Studies in India
7. A Well-Trodden Path: Studies in Darjeeling and Sikkim
8. Tibet, Tantrikas, and the Hero of Chaksam Ferry
9." The Clipper Ship of the Imagination"
10. Yoga on Fifth Avenue
11. Tibetland and the Penthouse of the Gods
12. To Climb the Highest Mountains
13. The Aftermath
14. Postscript: The View from Ki, Sixty Years Later
Notes
Bibliography
Index