The Myth Of Shangri La

Author : Victoria LePage
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780835631273

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Shambhala by Victoria LePage Pdf

For thousands of years, stories have been told about an inaccessible garden paradise hidden among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of the Himalayas. Called by some Shangri-la, this mythical kingdom, where the pure at heart live forever among jewel lakes, wish-fulfilling trees, and speaking stones, has fired the imagination of both actual explorers and mystical travelers to the inner realms. In this fascinating look behind the myth, Victoria LePage traces the links between this legendary Utopia and the mythologies of the world. Shambhala, LePage argues persuasively, is "real" and may be becoming more so as human beings as a species learn increasingly to perceive dimensions of reality that have been concealed for millennia.

Author : Peter Bishop
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066863

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The Myth of Shangri-La by Peter Bishop Pdf

"Bishop's engrossing and readable account provides us with a fascinating picture of European myths concerning the Land of the Snows and of the role these myths played in shaping perceptions of the Orient. Bishop's riveting portrait of European conceptions is an important and exceptionally well written contribution to an understanding of Western attitudes toward Tibet and all of East Asia."--Morris Rossabi, author of Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

Author : Michael Buckley
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1841622044

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Shangri-La by Michael Buckley Pdf

Appealing to the adventure traveler or armchair reader who simply wishes to browse and dream, this guide promises to lead them into the glorious reality and breathtaking landscapes of the Himalayas.

Author : Thierry Dodin,Heinz Rather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861711918

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Imagining Tibet by Thierry Dodin,Heinz Rather Pdf

In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land with an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. How and why did our perception change? How accurate are our modern conceptions of Tibet? Imagining Tibet is a collection of essays that reveal these Western conceptions. Providing an historical background to the West's ever-changing relationship with Tibet, Donald Lopez, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jamyang Norbu, and other noted scholars explore a variety of topics - from Western perceptions of Tibetan approaches to violence, monastic life, and life as a nation in exile, to representations of Tibet in Western literature, art, environmentalism, and the New Age movement.

Author : Ian Baker
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780500775530

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The Heart of the World by Ian Baker Pdf

The legend of Shangri-La emerged from the Tibetan Buddhist belief in beyul, or hidden lands. Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of these mythical sanctuaries lies at the eastern edge of the Himalayas, veiled by a colossal waterfall at the heart of the forbidding Tsangpo gorge. After years of research and investigation, Buddhist scholar and world-class climber Ian Baker and his team made worldwide news by reaching the bottom of the Tsangpo gorge and finding a magnificent 108-foot-high waterfall the legendary grail of both Western explorers and Tibetan seekers. The Heart of the World recounts one of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in recent memory an extraordinary journey into one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on earth, a meditation on our place in nature, and a pilgrimage to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism.

Author : Peter Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8187138211

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The Sacred Myth Of Shangri-La by Peter Bishop Pdf

Tibet, Travel, Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape Peter Bishop teaches at the South Australian College of advanced Education and has travelled widely in Tibet. Each generation creates its Own Tibet, drawing upon accounts of Tibetan and Himalayan travel and exploration, both fact and fiction, the author surveys the many ways in which these myths have developed and changed from the late eighteenth-century to the present day and he analyses these myths from a Jungian standpoint. Altogether, this is a masterful and persuasive study of the phenomenology of Western fantasy-making.

Author : Emily T. Yeh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295993588

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Mapping Shangrila by Emily T. Yeh Pdf

Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, examining how they are reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use, subjectivities, and inter-ethnic relations.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520247248

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In Search of Myths & Heroes by Michael Wood Pdf

In this companion to a forthcoming PBS series, Wood journeys to some of the remotest places on earth in search of four of mankind's most powerful myths: Shangri-La, Jason and the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba, and King Arthur.

Author : Tsering Shakya
Publisher : Random House
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448114290

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Dragon In The Land Of Snows by Tsering Shakya Pdf

Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, this remarkable book -the first authoritative history of modern Tibet - is also the first to provide detailed accounts of: * The covert political manoeuverings in Tibet and the role of the Tibetan, Chinese and British governments; * The Dalai Lama's escape in 1959; * The CIA's involvement and the establishment of a secret military base in the Nepalese Himalayas; * The British government lying to the UN and Douglas Hurd's role in that process; * The power struggles during th Cultural Revolution and the mass uprising against the Chinese that has remained secret until now.

Author : Parimal Bhattacharya
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789356290280

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Bells of Shangri-La by Parimal Bhattacharya Pdf

Almost all of the Himalayas had been mapped by the time the Great Game - in which the British and Russian empires fought for control of Central and Southern Asia - reached its zenith in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Only Tibet remained unknown and unexplored, zealously guarded and closed off to everyone. Britain sent a number of spies into this forbidden land, disguised as pilgrims and wanderers, outfitted with secret survey equipment and tasked with collecting topographical knowledge, and information about the culture and customs of Tibet. Among them was Kinthup, a tailor who went as a monk's companion to confirm that the Tsangpo and the Brahmaputra were the same river. Sarat Chandra Das, a schoolmaster, was also sent on a clandestine mission, and came back with extensive data and a trove of ancient manuscripts and documents. Bells of Shangri-La brings to vivid life the journeys and adventures of Kinthup, Sarat Chandra Das and others, including Eric Bailey, an officer who was part of the British invasion of Tibet in 1903. Weaving biography with history, and the memories of his own treks through the region, Parimal Bhattacharya writes in the great tradition of Peter Hopkirk and Peter Matthiessen to create a sparkling, unprecedented work of non-fiction.

Author : Shivaji Das
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Das, Shivaji
ISBN : 8194201861

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The 'other' Shangri-La by Shivaji Das Pdf

Author : Michael McRae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : UVA:X004703532

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In Search of Shangri-La by Michael McRae Pdf

Since the 19th century, Westerners have laid siege to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet. The colonial British saw it as a strategic prize, 1920's botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward saw it as a geographical puzzle to solve and Oxford educated American Tibet scholar Ian Baker (discoverer of the hidden waterfall in the 1990s) saw it as a hidden Buddhist realm. More recently kayakers have seen the rapids as the last great whitewater challenge. They paid with their lives. For all, the reality was unimportant. All heaped their own perceptions on the mythology that had come before. This title combines adventure, travel, history and myth to tell the story of the search for the hidden falls of Shangri-la.

Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780349142180

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The Search For Shangri-La by Charles Allen Pdf

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his novel LOST HORIZON. In THE SEARCH FOR SHANGRI-LA acclaimed traveller and writer Charles Allen explores the myth behind the story. He tracks down the sources that Hilton drew upon in writing his popular romance, and then sets out to discover what lies behind the legend that inspired him. In the course of a lively and amusing account of his four journeys into Tibet, Allen also gives us a controversial new reading of the country's early history, shattering our notions of Tibet as a Buddhist paradise and restoring the mysterious pre-Buddhist religion of Bon to its rightful place in Tibetan culture. He also locates the lost kingdom of Shang-shung and, in doing so, the original Shangri-La itself: in an astounding gorge beyond the Himalayas, full of extraordinary ruins.

Author : James Redfield
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780759522909

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The Secret of Shambhala by James Redfield Pdf

Continuing the exciting adventures of The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight, this new book takes you to the snow-covered Himalayas, in search of the legendary Tibetan utopia of Shambhala. As you follow a child's instructions, are pursued by hostile Chinese agents, and look for a lost friend, you will experience a new awareness of synchronicity...and discover, hidden among the world's highest mountains, the secrets that affect all humanity. For Shambhala not only actually exists, but is destined to be found in our time-and will reveal powerful truths that can transform the world.

Author : Tom Martin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330479905

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Kingdom by Tom Martin Pdf

When the Abbot spoke, his voice was thin and resigned. ‘It is the end of our monastery. By nightfall I will be dead and our walls will lie shattered. A terrible evil is coming from the forest . . .’ A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them all . . . Journalist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground. Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself . . .