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So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas by Crossette, Barbara is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas about?
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Who reads So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Crossette, Barbara
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679751359
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (75 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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