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100			_aCrossette, Barbara.
245			_aSo close to heaven : _bthe vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas / _cBarbara Crossette.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Departures, _c1995.
300			_axiii, 297 p. : _bill. ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aFor more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true to Tantric Buddhism. As she travels through Bhutan and its neighbots, Crossette introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity.
650			_aBuddhism _x Himalaya Mountains Region.
650			_aBuddhism _zBhutan.
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