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

Barbara Crossette

320 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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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 remain...

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