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So Close to Heaven

So Close to Heaven

Author(s): Barbara Crosette

Location(s): Bhutan

Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): late 20th century

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.

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