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050 00 $aPS3555.H72$bA3 1997
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100 1 $aEhrlich, Gretel.
245 10 $aQuestions of heaven :$bthe Chinese journeys of an American Buddhist /$cGretel Ehrlich.
246 30 $aChinese journeys of an American Buddhist
260 $aBoston :$bBeacon Press,$c1997.
300 $a128 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aConcord library
500 $aMaps on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 123-126).
520 $aGretel Ehrlich's path leads her to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces in western China to climb Emei Shan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. For Ehrlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter with a culture reeling from recent political history. Ehrlich visits Buddhist lamas who, until recently, were in hiding from the purges of the Cultural Revolution, and she travels to a panda refuge in the mountains northwest.
520 $aOf Chengdu - in both cases trying to unravel the ultimate fate of these once-revered symbols. "All roads to paradise first pass through purgatory." In perhaps the most hair-raising car-trip narrative in recent travel literature, Ehrlich writes of her journey from the southwestern city of Kunming over the Burma Road and on to Lijiang - an isolated mountain town which does in the end fulfill Ehrlich's hopes for cultural and spiritual revival, and where she learns from an.
520 $aUnlikely group of Naxi sacred musicians that "music is medicine" and that profound healing requires profound faith.
505 0 $aThe road to Emei Shan -- Disposable pandas -- Yunnan -- Lijiang -- London
590 $bArchive
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