Virtual Tibet (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Orville Schell
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The eighth century to the present
- Setting: Tibet, Europe, India, Argentina, and Hollywood
- Principal Characters: Orville Schell, Heinrich Harrer, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Brad Pitt, James Hilton
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, California, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, India or East Indian people, Fifteenth century, Sixteenth century, Argentina or Argentineans, Mysticism, Popular culture, Hollywood, Thirteenth century, Fourteenth century, Tenth century, Twelfth century, Eleventh century, Himalayas, Eighth century, Tibet or Tibetan people, Ninth century
- Locales: Europe, Argentina, Hollywood, CA, India, Tibet
Like the complicated braids worn by Tibetan peasantry, Orville Schell’s book Virtual Tibet is really several disparate strands of inquiry brought together into a seamless, and seemingly simple, whole. Tibet, it appears, is not just a geographic region the size of Western Europe, hemmed in by the Kunlun Shan, the deserts of Qinghai and Xinjiang Uygur, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Himalayas. No, it is an isolated and inscrutable geographic and psychic territory onto which both individual people and whole countries have projected their deepest spiritual longings, adventurous...
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