Prisoners of Shangri-La

Prisoners of Shangri-La
Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 022648548X

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapter Three: The Eye -- Chapter Four: The Spell -- Chapter Five: The Art -- Chapter Six: The Field -- Chapter Seven: The Prison -- Notes -- Index


Prisoners of Shangri-La
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-27 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapte
Prisoners of Shangri-La
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Donald S. Lopez
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-27 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed w
Prisoners of Shangri-La
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Donald S. Lopez
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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
Islamic Shangri-La
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: David G. Atwill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-09 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Donald S. Lopez
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-27 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Examines the history of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead," arguing that this text gained popularity due to the human obsession with death, the Western romance of T