1. And Then There Was One
2. The Druk Gyalpo
3. Becoming Buddha
4. Before Tibet, There Was Bon
5. The Road from Lumbini
6. Ladakh: Eclipsed by Other Gods
7. Sikkim: “No One Heard Us Cry”
8. Buddhist Nepal
9. Buddha and the Bhutanese State
10. The Dragon People
11. All Sentient Beings
12. Aum Rinzi’s World
13. Two Capitals, Two Eras
14. To Tashigang
15. One Sunday in Bumthang
An Afterthought
A Glossary of Common Words
BARBARA CROSSETTE, who joined the New York Times in 1973, spent seven years as a correspondent in Asia, and is now UN bureau chief. She was a Fulbright Professor of Journalism in India and has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at Princeton University. She won the 1991 George Polk Award for foreign reporting. She lives in New York City and Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania.
"There is no other full-length contemporary American account of
this likable and largely unvisited kingdom.... Crosette unravels
the intricacies of Buddhism with considerable clarity." —The New
York Times Book Review
"Any traveler, actual or armchair, would have a significantly
richer experience after reading this book. And for anyone with a
serious interest in Buddhism, it's essential
reading." —Washington Post Book World
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