Prisoners of Shangri-La PDF book is popular History book written by Donald S. Lopez Jr.. The book was released by University of Chicago Press on 2018-02-27 with total hardcover pages 306. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Prisoners of Shangri-La by Donald S. Lopez Jr. in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapte
“Lively and engaging . . . raises important questions about how Eastern religions are often co-opted, assimilated and misunderstood by Western culture.” —
Lopez finds that even as Tibet's romance is invoked by exiled lamas, it ultimately imprisons those who seek the goal of Tibetan independence from Chinese occupa
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 192
