The Conditions of Listening: Essays on Religion, History and Politics in South Asia
by Richard Burghart
Edited by C. J. Fuller and Jonathan Spencer
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996
Becoming good Buddhists may well be a matter of people becoming something they look as though they might have been but never actually were.
Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned guru, once
History, culture and politics set the Lhotshampa and the Drukpa apart. The Drukpa has decided to act, but can he prevail in the long term?
It was Kazi Ugen Dorii
After 25 years of persevering belligerence, Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered the three cities of the Kathmandu Valley in 1769. One year later, on 23 March, he shifted his capital to
If you can withstand asphyxiation by the combined fumes of the local latrine and the Patan buses enter Patan through Patan Dhoka. If you can find your way through, the
The tarai is becoming indistinguishable from the plains as its environmental and cultural uniqueness is undermined. Traditionally, it was the place where transition from hill to plain took place.
Observers
