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In the harsh, forsaken landscape of Western Tibet, a holy mountain rises up, the legendary center of the world. Sacred to Hindus and Buddhists alike, Mount Kailash had been in professor and popular writer Robert Thurman's mind for some time when he finally decided to organize a group and go--across the Chinese border, where he has always been persona non grata. Writer Tad Wise decides to tag along and put the adventures on paper. While recording Thurman's dharma lectures, Wise comes face to face with the magic of the mountain, its myths and its people, and haltingly transforms from cynical skeptic to tear-streaked pilgrim. Wise's writing leans toward the quirky, pushing ordinary sentences to their lapidary limits, and Thurman, as usual, tosses off tantalizing Buddhisms like "mind-body bubble" and "supreme orgasm of bliss-void-indivisible." For a book that's effectively about walking 32 miles over rubble around a remote peak, Circling the Sacred Mountain succeeds in drawing you into a mandala of swirling ideas and experiences, nudging you toward your own realizations. --Brian Bruya
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In the tradition of
The Snow Leopard,
Circling the Sacred Mountain is a remarkable account of spiritual adventure through the magical and forbidding landscape of remote western Tibet. A promise of spiritual transformation inspired Robert Thurman-renowned Buddhist scholar, teacher, and close friend of the Dalai Lama-to take a group of trekkers to Mount Kailash, the holiest of Himalayan mountains, and teach them an accelerated path of Tibetan Buddhism. Among the group was a former student and longtime friend, Tad Wise, who struggles with Thurman's teachings as much as with the rigors of high altitude. Together, they take us through an ominous border crossing to sites few Westerners have seen: sacred graveyards, majestic monasteries, and the meditation caves of ancient masters. Chronicling the inner as well as the outer journey, confrontations both physical and metaphysical,
Circling the Sacred Mountain is an exciting account of a challenging journey towards enlightenment.
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Amazing read.......2007-07-14
This book is not just a travel journal, but is also a great spiritual wakeup. Dr Thurman is an incredible resource.
Enlightening Blend of Exotic Travelogue and Dharma Wisdom.......2006-09-20
Few of us will ever undertake this arduous spiritual journey to one of the world's most remote sites, but reading this book is the next best thing. The dialectic between intrepid students and wise dharma master is unique and often profound. Tad Wise's narrative of the journey and occasional skeptical asides blends well with Thurman's lessons on the essence of Tantric Buddhism. Especially poignant was Thurman's metaphor of motherly love as a device for linking us all together through an empathic heart. Recommended for all open-minded spiritual seekers.
Interesting for the Right and Wrong Reasons.......2005-05-30
This is a spiritual travelogue in which Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and his backsliding sidekick Tad Wise lead a group of pilgrims to circumambulate Tibet's sacred Mount Kailish, believed by Tibetans to be the Home of the Gods and the Center of the World.
As a travelogue and introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, it works pretty well, with the narrative shifting back and forth between the scholarly pontifications of the hyper-serious Thurman and the more laid-back reflections of the slacker Wise. Whereas Thurman sees the journey as a spiritual quest, Wise tends to look upon it more as an adventure.
As the book progressed, I became intrigued how an educated Westerner like Thurman could so thoroughly immerse himself in an alien worldview such as that of Tibetan Buddhism. Here is a man who has no doubt dissected (and rejected) Christianity from a standpoint of strict rationalism, but who then does an about face and accepts an alien religion thoroughly steeped in a complex psycho-spiritual mythology. Thus we find the crusty old Thurman performing in all seriousnes acts which would strike some as rank superstition, e.g., performing a complex fire ritual to an assortment of Buddhist and Vedic deities, circumambulating the "Great Freedom Pole," and prostrating on the shores of the "holy" Lake Manasarovar.
This I found this book interesting both for the "right" reasons - as an introduction to Tibetan Buddhist beliefs and practices - and for the "wrong" reasons, i.e., my musings about the psychological quirks which draw some educated Westerners to Buddhism. Perhaps, as Rudyard Kiping once wrote, it's simply a yearning for a spirituality shorn of the negative associations of childhood, guilt, and repression: "Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, where there ain't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst."
Armchair Travel and Tantra.......2004-12-07
If Tantra is the union of opposites, this book works pretty well. Tad Wise seems likeable enough, except for the fact that he has 3 kids by 3 Moms, and leaves Mom #3 behind with a newborn to go off on this spiritual adventure. So I'm rooting for him to get it right this time and go home and help with the laundry. And Robert Thurman seems to use Tad as a whipping boy, teasing and taunting him, which doesn't make Thurman exactly shine in my eyes either. The other members of the trek are more or less invisible, though they are mentioned from time to time.
The mountain captures my attention starting from the picture on the cover. It looks extraordinary. I love Tibet, and this is deepest darkest Tibet for sure. The monasteries have all been trashed and recently rebuilt to attract tourists for China's benefit. Young Tibetans are as likely to smoke and play pool as they are to chant mantras. So all the tragedy of Tibet are here to see.
The dharma presented here is very Tibetan. Yamantaka, the fierce deity of death is invoked to stomp on and anhiliate one's self-obsession (the false self). The teaching is called the Blade Wheel of the Mind, and it is meant to work like a buzz-saw, turning all that is self-oriented into dust and all negative experiences into potential gold. To be there, exhausted and suffering from the high elevation, and to listen to these teachings, would probably be an extraordinary retreat experience. I don't know that it is particularly effective in absentia. Thurman does come off as a gas-bag. Maybe it was very unselfish of him, also worn out from trekking all day, to sit down and teach. Or maybe it was just pedantic of him. His close friendship with the Dalai Lama is name-dropped several times. I suppose it's relevant, but it also does not really endear him to me.
Since I will in all likelihood never even get to Tibet, much less to this remote corner, I enjoyed the vicarious trek. But I'm just as glad I wasn't part of this particular group of trekkers.
Tibetan Buddhism with a human side.......2002-09-27
This book was an exhilarating reading experience. With Tad Wise's descriptions of the scenery and Robert Thurman's vivid teachings, I felt as if I was there with them learning and experiencing everything. Their journey was long and storied and well presented. Seeing the experience from two sides, the teacher (Thurman) and the student (Wise) give a wide view of this country and its religion. Wise's antidotes add the human side to the experience. It shows how even you can achieve these great things. I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates journeys, religion, or even just a good true story. Thurman and Wise's account make the trek memorable.
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Johan Reinhard's discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of an Inca girl made international headlines in 1995, reaching more than a billion people worldwide. One of the best-preserved mummies ever found, it was a stunning and significant time capsule, the spectacular climax to an Andean quest that yielded no fewer than ten ancient human sacrifices as well as the richest collection of Inca artifacts in archaeological history.
Here is the paperback edition of his first-person account, which The Washington Post called "incredible…compelling and often astonishing" and The Wall Street Journal described as "… part adventure story, part detective story, and part memoir—an engaging look at a rarefied world." It's a riveting combination of mountaineering adventure, archaeological triumph, academic intrigue, and scientific breakthrough which has produced important results ranging from the best-preserved DNA of its age to the first complete set of an Inca noblewoman's clothing.
At once a vivid personal story, a treasure trove of new insights on the lives and culture of the Inca, and a fascinating glimpse of cutting-edge research in fields as varied as biology, botany, pathology, ornithology and history, The Ice Maiden is as spellbinding and unforgettable as the long-dead but still vital young woman at its heart.
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Mountaintop Mummies.......2006-03-06
Johan Reinhard led the archeological expeditions that discovered incredibly well-preserved Inca mummies in the Andes Mountains, including the world-famous Juanita in Peru and even more exciting finds in Argentina. This book offers details on several of Reinhard's expeditions, along with some new knowledge about Inca culture. We learn here that Inca nobles often traveled with great hardship to the summits of the most imposing mountains in the Andes, centuries before the advent of technical mountaineering. In fact, the mountains themselves were revered as deities, and human sacrifices were offered at their very summits, resulting in mummies that were remarkably preserved in the frigid environment. This book features outstanding photos of these mummies and the other valuable Inca artifacts that were found on the expeditions, while Reinhard reveals all the possibilities of the brand new science of high-altitude archeology, which have already contributed to expanding our knowledge of the Incas. The only problem with this book is that Reinhard spends far more time discussing the logistical and interpersonal issues behind his expeditions. This is still readable info for those interested in mountaineering, but Reinhard lapses into unnecessary details about personal disputes and bureaucratic red tape. This is all at the expense of more knowledge about the details of Inca culture that were unveiled, especially concerning their mountain climbing practices and their customs of human sacrifice in some of the most inhospitable locations on Earth. [~doomsdayer520~]
A Decade Since the Discovery of Juanita in Peru........2006-01-30
The world's oldest artifically preserved mummies (before 4000 B.C.) were found in coastal regions of southern Peru and northern Chile. "Mummies provide information which can be used to educate the world about the unique history of a remarkable ancient civilization. These frozen bodies allow a view into the past that cannot be obtained through any other means. Because of the Incas' practice of making human sacrifices at sites on high mountains, the Andes region is the only one in the world with a good chance of finding frozen mummies."
There was no form of writing in the Andes prior to the Spanish conquest of 1532. Although no Spaniard in Peru witnessed a human sacrifice, several 'chroniclers' reported details provided to them by the Incas. "The monumental complex of structures at Tiahuanaco, Boliivia, constitutes one of the most impressive archaeological sites in South America. Large monoliths were used in making religious structures nearly 1700 years ago. This urban-ceremonial complex was the center for a civilization that lasted more than 700 years -- longer than the Roman Empire."
The highest point of Ampato's summit had steep gullies leading down from it. The Ice Maiden (named Juanita) was swept down one of the gullies when a part of the summit ridge collapsed. The Ice Maiden's bundle was found lying in the open amidst ice pinnacles, after it had fallen down from the summit. She had been sacrificed to the gods on Ampato more than five hundred years ago. "Her frozen body evokes her humanity, while also being a time capsule, providing unprecedented information about one of the ancient world's most important civilizations."
In 1999, three frozen mummies were found at Llullaillaco, a young boy and two older females. Johan Reinhard's children's book, DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN (1995) was successful and chosen as 'Outstanding Book of the Year' by the Junior Literary Guild.
Recently scientists examined an Inca human sacrifice found on Mount Chuscha in northwestern Argentina. There was a PBS special on this and Reinhard's expeditions in the 90s called ICE MUMMIES. He was a research associate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago before his 'finds' and is now 'explorer-in-residence of the National Geographic Society' who published this book.
Real teamwork on rough expeditions.......2005-12-06
Beyond the descriptions of the archaeological discoveries, what really jumped out at me reading The Ice Maiden were the expeditions themselves. Reinhard is clearly accustomed to working on a shoestring budget, which requires a team working well together and willing to deal with physical discomfort amidst uncertainties and delays. Some of the most enjoyable passages are of the easy camaraderie and mutual respect between Reinhard and his teams of Peruvians and Argentines that shines through during his descriptions of later expeditions, including a couple filled with tension. It reads like being on real expeditions, with people facing real problems in tough conditions.
The best line comes when Reinhard is hemming and hawing to his team members in Salta, Argentina, apologizing to everybody in advance, explaining all the potential problems to come during their prolonged stay at 22,000 feet while excavating the world's highest archaeological site. There's an awkward silence, then one member speaks up: "I just want to get out of the city and onto a mountain!" After having read this book, you'll know what he means, and also learn a lot about Andean beliefs, mountaineering, and the scientific importance of the team's spectacular discoveries.
Loved the back story.......2005-11-09
Johann Reinhard's moment by moment account of discovering the Incan Ice Maiden covered all the subjects I wanted with the topic of this importance. He reports not only the expected archeology, historical/cultural context, and actual discoveries, but also the logistics, preservation science and the usual professional infighting that accompanies such media intense stories. Reinhard exposes much of his thoughts and feelings toward the growing number of players as everyone wants to be part of the story. Would-be explorers would do well to read and note the worries and difficulties modern discoveries take on.
Needed an editor.......2005-10-19
Having a long-standing amateur's interest in both archaeology and high-altitude mountaineer (I am neither an archaeologist nor a mountaineer myself) I was predisposed to like this book. But the first two chapters really put me off. Having a really exciting story to tell, Reinhard spends far too much time telling us what a great explorer he is and what jerks the Peruvian archaeological establishment, and even his fellow climbers, are. Reinhard can be justifiably proud of his accomplishments, but his arrogance is annoying and distracting.
Much of the rest of the book seems to have been transcribed almost without editing from his personal diaries, interspersed with random factoids about Inca culture and mummy conservation techniques. What should have been a riveting account was choppy and hard to read.
I agree with the other reviewers that the photos were great, though!
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- Essential!
- Entertaining, thought provoking, a MUST buy
- OKish. It's just an anthology of other books.
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Sacred Mountains of the World
Edwin Bernbaum
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Mountaineer and scholar of comparative religion Edwin Bernbaum knows his subject from experience as well as from texts. In his award-winning collection of luminous photographs, Sacred Mountains of the World, Bernbaum takes you through the sacred ranges of six continents, while weaving the stories of gods and spirits with those of explorers and mountaineers. The best, most substantive, book of its kind. --Brian Bruya
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Since the beginning of human history, mountains have had an extraordinary power to evoke the sacred in our lives. Regarded as places of mystery and spiritual attainment by people in every culture, mountains arouse feelings of reverence and awe. In this strikingly beautiful book Edwin Bernbaum combines exquisite photography with years of mountaineering and scholarly research to provide the most comprehensive study of sacred mountains to date.
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Essential!.......2002-01-04
This is one of few essential books in my library. It's the encyclopedia of sacred mountains, but also clearly a work of love. Sacred mountains have come to guide my own life in a very profound way, and this book has given wise counsel to such a journey. It is also supremely beautiful with some sublime fullpage photos - worth buying an extra coffee table for!
Entertaining, thought provoking, a MUST buy.......2000-04-13
As a long time mountaineer, I am well versed in the mountaineering literature. My book collection has many treasures, but none as valued as Bernbaum's "Sacred Mountains of the World". This is a book I use to remind me that the lure of the mountains has a spiritual aspect that transcends the lure of conquest. Some mountains are special and Bernbaum, a Buddhist scholar in addition to his work in Asian Studies, tells their stories with great skill. Drawing upon the literature and myths of the past, Bernbaum reminds the modern reader why we should look upon mountains as "embodiments of humanity's highest ideals and aspirations". The book is entertaining as well as thought provoking--the photos are superb. The book is so good, it makes me want to share it with others. I have given it as a gift many times. I enthusiastically give it five stars.
OKish. It's just an anthology of other books........1999-05-27
All Bernbaum has done is to read other people's books and string together their ideas. There's very little that's new here.
It's all been done before
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Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain. Working at the intersection of anthropology, religion, and Japan studies, Ellen Schattschneider focuses on Akakura Mountain Shrine, a popular Shinto institution founded by a rural woman in the 1920s. For decades, local spirit mediums and worshipers, predominantly women, have undertaken extended periods of shugyo (ascetic discipline) within the shrine and on the mountain's slopes. Schattschneider argues that their elaborate, transforming repertoire of ritual practice and ascetic discipline has been generated by complex social and historical tensions largely emerging out of the uneasy status of the surrounding area within the modern nation's industrial and postindustrial economies.
Schattschneider shows how, through dedicated work at the shrine including demanding ascents up the sacred mountain, the worshipers come to associate the rugged mountain landscape with their personal biographies, the life histories of certain exemplary predecessors and ancestors, and the collective biography of the extended congregation. She contends that this body of ritual practice presents worshipers with fields of imaginative possibilities through which they may dramatize or reflect upon the nature of their relations with loved ones, ancestors, and divinities. In some cases, worshipers significantly redress traumas in their own lives or in those of their families. In other instances, these ritualized processes lead to deepening crises of the self, the accelerated fragmentation of local households, and apprehension of possession by demons or ancestral forces. Immortal Wishes reveals how these varied practices and outcomes have over time been incorporated into the changing organization of ritual, space, and time on the mountainscape.
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- Brilliant demonstration of many-sided mountain realities
- Brilliantly original. Insightful. Very, very special
- An excellent read - thoroughly original in each chapter
- An original, stimulating, challenging and beautiful book
- A brilliant book which I'm recommending to all my friends
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Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Meanings
Adrian Cooper
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Brilliant demonstration of many-sided mountain realities.......2000-06-08
Cooper's work directly confronts all this nonsense produced by so-called main stream scientists that there is just one reality 'out-there'. Wrong! There is no such thing. Mountains mean so many things to so many people. They can be huge hulking masses of brutal rock, or they can be the most delightful, gentle companions. They can be cruel or they can be our greatest teachers. How can we make sense of this diversity of possibilities? By listening to the pilgrims who make these decisions to live by those truths. What is the data for our understanding of these poetic geographies? It is the words of these thoughtful travellers. And this is what Cooper does. He's listened to pilgrims from Europe and North America. And then he brings us their words and the words of the writers and teachers who've most influenced these people. So the result is one of the richest books I've ever read. Bristling with ideas. Never short of compelling, courageous experiences. Daring to go places where other mountain books fear to tread. But in doing so, doing a great service to mountain literature, pilgrimage and all allied scholarship. Read it!
Brilliantly original. Insightful. Very, very special.......2000-03-04
There is no shortage of mountain literature, but a great shortage of real quality in this field. Adrian Cooper's brilliant first book is of the highest quality, and I have no hesitation in recommending it to all who love mountains - climbers, walkers, skiiers or other pilgrims. At the heart of Cooper's success here is a willingness to listen to the stories mountain people have to tell. He doesn't judge, condemn or categorise. Instead, he takes these stories, uses the travellers' own words where appropriate and then locates them with the ancient history of the mountain in question - the poetry and prose which others have been inspired to write. So we, the readers, are treated to so much wisdom and clear insight. A remarkable achievement.
An excellent read - thoroughly original in each chapter.......1999-10-23
I was given Sacred Mountains as a birthday present, but began reading it with dread. It looked too New Age to me. But that was just my first reaction, which I soon banished as soon as I got into this excellent and original book. I like the use of interviews with so many fascinating people. And Cooper's remarkable breadth of knowledge in developing an intelligent discussion from what everyone says is truly impressive. And in so many directions too, but with singular clarity. Each of the pilgrims Cooper writes about have embarked on some remarable mountain journeys. But as readers, we're never left behind. Cooper writes so we can all 'see' what others have experienced - both within their psychology and their physical surroundings out on the peaks. The use of poetry and prose from other writers is also a wonderful added dimension to this multi-dimensional book. To the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been any other mountain book which is like this one, so for originality alone, it deserves the support of all folk who need the mountains and love them (ie find them sacred/precious places). In an age when religious ideas are so much under threat, Cooper reminds us of how important Rudolf Otto's famous observation is: sacredness is both terrible and fascinating.
An original, stimulating, challenging and beautiful book.......1999-09-30
I finished reading Sacred Mountains a couple of months ago, but it won't let me go! It keeps challenging me. It keeps pushing me to think more deeply about my feelings and instincts toward mountains. And I like that. Any book that refuses to let go of its reader has got to be worth talking about, which is why I wanted to offer this testimony. This is a truly great book.
A brilliant book which I'm recommending to all my friends.......1999-09-02
I can't add too much to the other reviews here. I agree with them all. But all I would say is, for me, mountains have been such a help in getting over a lot of personal problems in my past. They've given me solitude. And this book comes closest to being the truth about mountains from the way they've changed my life.
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This booklet provides a deep and insightful spiritual research into and a true diagnosis of the basic causes of the malady, humanity is suffering from and it also provides the unfailing remedy therefor.,
this booklet will be equally inspiring, uplifting and illuminating for the environmentalist, the nature loves and the spiritual seeker. it gives glimpse into the deepest recesses of the seer soul of a multi splendorous Mystic Guide
par excellenceof our age, who heard sermons in the stones and celestial songs of harmony, unity and love in the Himalayan wilderness- in its brooks and streams, its flora ad fauna, its icy winds and in the heart of the simple folks and could concretely exprience his oneness with all creation ; Vasudevah Sarvam Iti.
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- you will share this one with everyone you meet...
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Entering The Sacred Mountain: Exploring the Mystical Practices of Judaism, Buddhism, and Sufism
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A Heart of Stillness: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation
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The fascinating record of David Cooper's own spiritual life, and how the union between himself and his wife has been strengthened by spiritual practice. It is also one of the most perceptive accounts of meditation practice ever written.
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you will share this one with everyone you meet..........1999-01-15
After having given three copies of this book away, I have purchased one that must remain mine...I been touched by the people who have picked up this book,[ who rarely read this type of literature], and watched as they have stopped 'skimming' and became totally immersed in the writing...and then to see the same thing happen with someone who has literally read everything of a spiritual nature on the market for the last 20 years...and found this book to be original, thought provoking and enlightening.....
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The Sacred Mountains
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Title: Sacred mountain: not all the news from Africa is bad.
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