Journey in Ladakh

High up in the remote mountain passes on the Indian border with Tibet, China and Pakistan, Ladakh has been a centre for Buddhist meditation since three centuries before Christ and is one of the last places on earth where a Tibetan Buddhist community still survives. Arriving by rickety bus, Andrew Harvey was unprepared for the breathtaking splendour, colour and silence of the landscape, and was entranced by the simple way of life of its people, for whom the sacred and everyday merge into one. Frustrated by the spiritual poverty of his sophisticated, western, intellectual lifestyle, Andrew Harvey finds peace, hope and freedom in the Buddhist teachings of Thuksey Rinpoche at Shey monastery, and discovers spiritual strength.

PRAISE
"A book of ecstasy as well as travel"
—Geoffrey Moorhouse

"A remarkable evocation of another life"
—Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times

"A lovely travel book - this testament of a journey"
—Nicholas Wollaston, Observer

"Should be in the backpack of every pilgrim in search of himself"
—E S Turner, Listener