Ancient futures
Subtitle: lessons from Ladakh for a globalizing world
By: Helena Norberg-Hodge ; foreword by the Dalai Lama ; introduction by Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781578051625
Subjects: Rural conditions; Rural development projects; Appropriate technology
Notes: "Updated with a new afterword by the author."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Learning from Ladakh; title: Part 1. Tradition.  "Little Tibet" ; Living with the land ; Doctors and Shamans ; We have to live together ; An unchoreographed dance ; Buddhism: a way of life ; Joie de vivre; title: Part 2. Change.  The coming of the West ; People from Mars ; Money makes the world go round ; From Lama to engineer ; Learning the Western way ; A pull to the center ; A people divided; title: Part 3. Looking ahead.  Nothing is black, nothing is white ; The development hoax ; Counter-development ; The Ladakh project; title: Epilogue: Ancient futures; title: Afterword: An economics of happiness.