Mountain Will Decide (eBook)

Karen Swenson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
600 Seiten
Red Penguin Books (Verlag)
978-1-63777-362-8 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Where will you go when I die?"e; Swenson's elderly aunt asked, triggering her first journey to Tibet. But what began as a trip in memoriam expanded to a fascination with a country with a deeply Buddhist culture, dominated and exploited by its wealthy neighbor China. The fascination in turn enlarged to an obsession whose essence became a mountain.Over a couple of decades Swenson traveled every year or two back to Tibet to places that enchanted her, that fascinated her, that she needed to see again-Lhasa, Gyantze, Shigatze, Tholing, Tsaparang. She became friends with a Tibetan woman of her own age. She traveled sometimes with friends, sometimes only with a guide. But the sacred mountain, Mount Kailash, and the thirty-three mile walk, the khora, around the mountain became a path she yearned to return to. Here, in the rain-shadow of the Himalayas in a landscape dry and ascetic, sere in its stone-boned beauty at 18,600 feet she experienced an illumination of her life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: buddist • khora • Mount Kailish
• ISBN-10: 1-63777-362-5 / 1637773625
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63777-362-8 / 9781637773628