Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West Format:Paperback insect repellent fabrics

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Published: 01/28/2014

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Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West Format:Paperback insect repellent fabricsTo the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion. He examines, among much else,