TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crossette, Barbara.
TI  - So close to heaven: the vanishing Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas 
SN  - 9780679743637
U1  - 294.3095496 CRO 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Departures
KW  - Buddhism
KW  -  Himalaya Mountains Region
KW  - Bhutan
N1  - Includes index
N2  - For 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
ER  -