Peaks and Lamas

Peaks and Lamas

Pallis, Marco, 1895-1989 -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Buddha (The concept)
Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)
Buddhism
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel
Asia, Central -- Description and travel
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religion

Peaks and Lamas is the account of two geographically related things: the climbing of Himalayan peaks and the Himalayan-Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. It was on a climbing expedition to the Ganges-Satlej watershed that Marco Pallis first began to study the lamas' teachings and way of life. He returned several times to the upper slopes, these later journeys undertaken in search of further spiritual guidance. This book, with its elements of high adventure, its study of Buddhism, and its informed survey of Tibetan art and living, is invaluable for its undiluted, non-western view of the roof of the world. Peaks and Lamas also includes a series of photographs taken by Pallis and his friends.

Marco Pallis

New York : A.A. Knopf

1949

xvi, 397 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm.

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