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Powell's Books - Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helen Norberg-Hodge
Please excuse the cross post - particularly those of you who will receive this multiple times - but I just wanted to share this book with you all. I just finished reading it and found it to be a fascinating examination of a traditional - and happily functional - culture that was waylaid by modern development and its subsequent steps back from the cultural abyss of western civilization.
It is a portrait of Ladakh and the Ladahki people, a Buddhist culture living in the Indian Himalayas bordering Tibet, told in three parts: the first part describes Ladakh before it was opened to western-style development, the second part describes it after western-style development had begun to take hold, and the third part is Norberg-Hodge's prescription for a world in which development takes place in a decentralized and sustainable fashion which allows for advance but in a manner which preserves the natural environment and local cultures.
This is not a new book (it was published in 1992) and some of you may already be aware of it. Still, I found this book to be very instructive and valuable to anyone seeking a way forward that preserves all that is best about our planet and ourselves. Highly recommended.
Powell's Books - Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helen Norberg-Hodge
www.powells.com/biblio/1-0871566435-10
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Best,
Todd
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
--Nelson Henderson
Powell's Books - Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helen Norberg-Hodge
Please excuse the cross post - particularly those of you who will receive this multiple times - but I just wanted to share this book with you all. I just finished reading it and found it to be a fascinating examination of a traditional - and happily functional - culture that was waylaid by modern development and its subsequent steps back from the cultural abyss of western civilization.
It is a portrait of Ladakh and the Ladahki people, a Buddhist culture living in the Indian Himalayas bordering Tibet, told in three parts: the first part describes Ladakh before it was opened to western-style development, the second part describes it after western-style development had begun to take hold, and the third part is Norberg-Hodge's prescription for a world in which development takes place in a decentralized and sustainable fashion which allows for advance but in a manner which preserves the natural environment and local cultures.
This is not a new book (it was published in 1992) and some of you may already be aware of it. Still, I found this book to be very instructive and valuable to anyone seeking a way forward that preserves all that is best about our planet and ourselves. Highly recommended.
Powell's Books - Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helen Norberg-Hodge
www.powells.com/biblio/1-0871566435-10
--
Best,
Todd
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
--Nelson Henderson
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