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Beyond Shangri La
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Author : John Kenneth Knaus
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-19
Beyond Shangri La written by John Kenneth Knaus and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with History categories.
Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the presence of the current Dalai Lama and his direction of their country. In 1958, John Kenneth Knaus volunteered to serve in a major CIA program to support the Tibetans. For the next seven years, as an operations officer working from India, from Colorado, and from Washington, D.C., he cooperated with the Tibetan rebels as they utilized American assistance to contest Chinese domination and to attain international recognition as an independent entity. Since the late 1950s, the rugged resolve of the Dalai Lama and his people and the growing respect for their efforts to free their homeland from Chinese occupation have made Tibet's political and cultural status a pressing issue in international affairs. So has the realization by nations, including the United States, that their geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.
The Search For Shangri La
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Author : Charles Allen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-11-05
The Search For Shangri La written by Charles Allen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Travel categories.
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.
Return To Shangri La
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Author : Leslie Halliwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Return To Shangri La written by Leslie Halliwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Shangri-La (Imaginary place) categories.
Shangri La
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Author : Heiner Boehncke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10
Shangri La written by Heiner Boehncke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10 with Art museums categories.
Visitors were forewarned, a hand-written sign announcing: "The museum testifies to the thousand year history, work and labour of our ancestors. The exhibition extends for over 5000 m2." From the outset, it was a utopian undertaking. Not without reason does the lama monastery Shangri-La from James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon serve as namesake to this museum. Pietro Benzi (1931 - 2014) maintained the project from 1965 onwards. He collected what they no longer wanted, what had become antiquated or gone out of fashion: 2.7 million everyday objects, many of which were household effects, religious kitsch, knick-knacks, shoes and plastic toys. This photographic essay takes the viewer on a journey inside his unsystematic collection.
Searching For Shangri La
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Author : Laurence Brahm
language : en
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Searching For Shangri La written by Laurence Brahm and has been published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Travel categories.
In 2002, author, filmmaker, and economist Laurence Brahm, inspired by James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon and his own quest for meaning, began his search for Shangri-la. Some say that Shangri-la can be found in sacred Tibet, or maybe in wild Qinghai; others believe it can be found in artistic Yunnan in the southwest of China. The author discovered the spiritual truth that Shangri-la is not a place; rather, it is a state of mind. As Brahm hitchhiked through western China, well off the beaten track, he recorded the interior changes and illuminations he experienced as his consciousness expanded far beyond the everyday cares of his years of urban life in Beijing. The insights of his journey and his meetings with others who searched for their own versions of Shangri-la, helped him to understand that the archetypal goal he sought was actually a state of consciousness. Shangri-la may be found in a cup of café latte or yak-butter tea—if we search carefully enough and with mindfulness and compassion. Searching for Shangri-la is the first book of the Himalayan Trilogy . The reader will discover the need for fresh economic paradigms that call for compassionate capital, the empowerment of people, and prioritization of the environment. Spirituality can be more powerful than materialism. The need for sustainability has rarely been so beautifully and eloquently defended.
Shangri La
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Author : Eleanor Cooney
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1996
Shangri La written by Eleanor Cooney and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
A sequel to James Hilton's 1933 classic, Lost Horizons, on a hidden valley of permanent youth in Tibet. The time is the 1960s and Hugh Conway, the hero of Hilton's book, returns to Shangri-La to save the inhabitants from the evil designs of a Chinese Communist general who has found a map to the place.
Media Law Reform Beyond Shangri La
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Author : Michael Donald Kirby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Media Law Reform Beyond Shangri La written by Michael Donald Kirby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Freedom of information categories.
Shangri La
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Author : Michael Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2008
Shangri La written by Michael Buckley and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Travel categories.
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.
Peter Carter And The Seekers The Road To Shangri La
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Author : Newman Skyles
language : en
Publisher: Newman Skyles
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Peter Carter And The Seekers The Road To Shangri La written by Newman Skyles and has been published by Newman Skyles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Shambhala
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Author : Victoria LePage
language : en
Publisher: Quest Books
Release Date : 2014-08-22
Shambhala written by Victoria LePage and has been published by Quest Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-22 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
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.