Ebook: Ancient Futures

Prologue. Learning from Ladakh -- Part one. 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 -- Part two. 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 -- Part three. Looking ahead. Nothing is black, nothing is white ; The development hoax ; Counter-development ; The Ladakh project -- Epilogue. "Ancient futures" -- Afterword / by Peter Matthiessen.