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Ancient futures : lessons from Ladakh for a globalizing world / Helena Norberg-Hodge ; foreword by the Dalai Lama ; introduction by Peter Matthiessen.

By: Publication details: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c2009.Description: xiv, 226 p. : ill. , maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781578051625 (pbk.)
  • 1578051622 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN690.L33 N67 2009
Contents:
"Little Tibet" -- Living with the land -- Doctors and Shamans -- We have to live together -- Unchoreographed dance -- Buddhism: a way of life -- Joie de vivre -- The coming of the West -- People from Mars -- Money makes the world go round -- From Lama to engineer -- Learning the Western way -- Pull to the center -- A people divided -- Nothing is black, nothing is white -- The development hoax -- Counter-development -- The Ladakh project -- Epilogue: ancient futures.

"Updated with a new afterword by the author."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index.

"Little Tibet" -- Living with the land -- Doctors and Shamans -- We have to live together -- Unchoreographed dance -- Buddhism: a way of life -- Joie de vivre -- The coming of the West -- People from Mars -- Money makes the world go round -- From Lama to engineer -- Learning the Western way -- Pull to the center -- A people divided -- Nothing is black, nothing is white -- The development hoax -- Counter-development -- The Ladakh project -- Epilogue: ancient futures.

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