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Author : Nicholas Roerich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Altai Mountains
ISBN : UOM:39015028771742
Author : Nicholas Roerich
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0260935875
Excerpt from Altai-Himalaya: A Travel Diary Whether one believes this or not, it would be hard to imagine a' better ambassador of good will from the West to the East, for the reason that although he represents the summit of European accomplishment and culture, Roerich is deeply Oriental in his temperament, sympathies and point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Nikolaj Konstantinovič Rerich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8173030448
Nicholas Roerich's classic 1929 mystic travel book is back in print He kept a diary of his travels by yak and camel through a remote region still largely unknown today. An intellectual as well as an adventurer, he chronicles his expedition through Sinkiang, Altai-Mongolia and Tibet from 1924 to 1928 in twelve exciting chapters detailing his encounters along the parched byways of Central Asia. With a special interest in geographical mysteries and arcane and mystical arts, he searches for the hidden cities of Shambala and Agartha. Roerich's original drawings, as well as reproductions of his inspiring paintings illustrate this unique travel book.
Author : David Hatcher Childress
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0932813070
Explores some of the world's oldest and most remote countries in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries.
Author : Nicholas Roerich
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892813024
Roerich recounts his journeys to more than fifty monasteries and his meetings with lamas eager to share their spiritual insights and heritage with the Western world. His expeditions crossed thirty-five mountain passes, and included here are dramatic descriptions of snow blindness, mountain floods, and mysterious electrical phenomena, as well as intimate depictions of daily life in the rigorous yet beautiful Himalayan environment.
Author : Nikolai Shodoev
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780991221
Drawing on ancient symbols, oral and shamanic text, legend and prophecy, Shodoev gives an introduction to Altai cosmology, the soul, individual, spiritual development, harmony between man and the nature and the imminent evolutionary shift from the yellow to the white era. ,
Author : Alexandre Andreyev
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004270435
This book examines the lives of the famous Russian painter, thinker, and mystic Nikolai Roerich and his wife, Elena Roerich, the “mother” of Agni Yoga esoteric teaching. Extensively researched, it focuses on the couple’s spiritual quest, resulting in their gradual transformation under the influence of theosophy, spiritualism and Elena’s psychic “fiery experience” into mystics and gurus who fashioned their new version of the “myth of the Masters,” the invisible guides of humanity. Special attention is given to N. Roerich’s travels in Central Asia and Far East, his cultural and public activities and particularly his Buddho-Communist utopia. The myth of the Masters revived will appeal to those interested in New Age esotericism, mysticism, and Russian thought in the first half of the 20th century.
Author : Niraj Kumar,George van Driem,Phunchok Stobdan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000215519
The centrality of the Himalayas as a connecting point or perhaps a sacred core for the Asian continent and its civilisations has captivated every explorer and scholar. The Himalaya is the meeting point of two geotectonic plates, three biogeographical realms, two ancient civilisations, two different language streams and six religions. This book is about the determinant factors which are at work in the Himalayas in the context of what it constitutes in terms of its spatiality, legends and myths, religious beliefs, rituals and traditions. The book suggests that there is no single way for understanding the Himalayas. There are layers of structures, imposition and superimposition of human history, religious traits and beliefs that continue to shape the Asian dynamics. An understanding of the ultimate union of the Himalayas, its confluences and its bridging role is essential for Asian balance. This book is a collaborative effort of an internationally acclaimed linguist, a diplomat-cum-geopolitician and a young Asianist. It provides countless themes that will be intellectually stimulating to scholars and students with varied interests. Please note: This title is co-published with KW Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3477 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135456627
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : M. Payoly
Publisher : tredition
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783746954622
JESUS CHRIST, the founder of the New Faith called Christianity, is well known on all continents and respected by the followers of various religions. He was born in Palestine and spent His childhood there until the age of 12. There is no explanation in the Bible about where He was and what He did between the ages of 12 and 29. The Roman Church was aware of it, but has deliberately kept it a secret. He appears unexpectedly before the common people in Palestine one day as a preacher telling them about truth, principles and the purpose of life on earth in a manner they had not heard before. India was then the country of spirituality. Historical evidences say that Jesus arrived in India when He was fourteen years old. He visited and studied in the famous Hindu Temple of Jagannath in Puri, Orissa. Jesus also visited Benares and other Hindu holy places. He was compelled to leave Puri because He protested against the caste system and animal slaughter existing in the Hindu society. Later, He visited and studied in Buddhist monasteries in India, Nepal and Tibet. He became a master in Hindu scriptures and Yoga. He preached His New Faith to the common people and was famous in those countries. He was a wanderer. When He was 29 years old, He returned to Palestine to fulfill His mission. The Church had known about His life in India and His new doctrine containing many parables that are popular in Hinduism and Buddhism. But no mention was made of them in the Bible. Why? Historical evidences indicate that Jesus did not die on the cross and escaped to Kashmir, India, where also He preached His New Faith as a respected holy man. He grew old and died in Kashmir. This book contains detailed information about how Jesus was saved from the cross and escaped to Kashmir and where the tombs of Mother Mary and Jesus can be found. Historical evidences are given in this book, based on the works of erudite scholars like N. Notovitch, K. N. Ahamad, M. A. Faruqui and Prof. F. Hassnain.
Author : Theodore Levin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253045034
Theodore Levin takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo; the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals; and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a remarkable art and technology of sound-making among nomadic pastoralists. As performers from Tuva and other parts of inner Asia have responded to the growing worldwide popularity of their music, Levin follows them to the West, detailing their efforts to nourish global connections while preserving the power and poignancy of their music traditions.
Author : Carole Pegg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252055072
An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg’s long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world. Inspired by the mountain-steppe ecology and pathways of nomadism, soundscapes created in performative ritual events cross political and multiple-world boundaries in a shamanic-animist universe, enabling human and spirit actor interactions in a series of sensuous worlds. As with the “throat-singing” for which Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples are famous, senses of place involve sonic relations, rootedness, movement, and plurality. Pegg echoes their drone-partials musical and ontological models in an innovative theoretical entwinement. Three strands form the book’s multivocal drone, the partials of which sound in each chapter: ontological sonicality and musicality that enables emplacement and movement; the importance of shamanism-animism--at the core of Indigenous spiritual practices--for personhood and community; and the agency of sonic performances. Sounding place, Pegg demonstrates, is essential to the identities, ways of life, and very senses of being of Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples.
Author : Bas Verschuuren,Jeffrey McNeely,Gonzalo Oviedo,Robert Wild
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136530746
Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.
Author : Andrei Znamenski
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780835630283
Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Shambhala played in Russian geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Perhaps the only one on the subject, Andrei Znamenski’s book presents a wholly different glimpse of early Soviet history both erudite and fascinating. Using archival sources and memoirs, he explores how spiritual adventurers, revolutionaries, and nationalists West and East exploited Shambhala to promote their fanatical schemes, focusing on the Bolshevik attempt to use Mongol-Tibetan prophecies to railroad Communism into inner Asia. We meet such characters as Gleb Bokii, the Bolshevik secret police commissar who tried to use Buddhist techniques to conjure the ideal human; and Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter who, driven by his otherworldly Master and blackmailed by the Bolshevik secret police, posed as a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama to unleash religious war in Tibet. We also learn of clandestine activities of the Bolsheviks from the Mongol-Tibetan Section of the Communist International who took over Mongolia and then, dressed as lama pilgrims, tried to set Tibet ablaze; and of their opponent, Ja-Lama, an “avenging lama” fond of spilling blood during his tantra rituals.
Author : Mahesh Ranjan Debata,Selbi Hanova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003852377
This book studies India’s historical, socio-cultural, and trade linkages with Inner Asia. Inner Asia includes the landlocked regions within East Asia and North Asia that are part of today's Western China, Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Siberia. The volume examines issues of geopolitics, geoeconomics, climate change, regional cooperation, and discusses the importance of the fabled Silk Road for the countries of Inner Asia. It also analyses the impact India has wielded upon the region through its cultural traits and how Buddhism has remained a binding force between the people of the two regions. Lucid and topical, this book will be of useful for scholars and researchers of Asian studies, central Asian studies, area studies, geopolitics, international trade, international relations, defence and strategic studies, diplomacy and foreign policy, and political studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers, bureaucrats, diplomats and think tanks.
