Guy van Strydonck
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
175 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The little-known kingdom of Bhutan, around the size of Switzerland, is now one of the last strongholds of Tantric Buddhism in the East. Although isolated for centuries by its geographical situation, bound as it is on the south by dense tropical jungles and to the north by the mighty Himalayas, in the last ten years with the advent of motor roads and the national will to develop, it has slowly opened its frontiers to a few privileged visitors and tourists....