Set mostly in 1966, " Shangri-La " revisits the mysterious lamasery to document its struggle to survive the purges and destructiveness of China's Cultural Revolution.
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{{ quote | A computer is installed by Western technicians in a Tibetan lamasery; its task is in to speed up the compilation of all the possible names of God.
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The lamasery has modern conveniences, like central heating, bathtubs from Akron, Ohio, a large library, a grand piano, a harpsichord and food from the fertile valley below.
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Hilton had given an ambiguous ending to his story about four people who were kidnapped and flown to an idyllic civilization centered upon a Tibetan lamasery whose inhabitants had discovered the secret of longevity.
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The primary places where libraries were open to him were lamaseries and monasteries, although with the passing of time some private libraries of royalty and of wealthy families were also thrown open to him.
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The scene was the grassy right bank of the Batang River below its junction with the small river, to reach which the former had to be crossed by a wooden bridge near the lamasery.
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No, it's not just about existing, because all books that have been created and are still sitting somewhere, even in the darkest recesses of the most obscure Tibetan lamasery, exist.
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The perceived spirit reported that Crowther had been a student in a Tibetan lamasery, and he ( the spirit ) mentioned the name " Younghusband " and that " he " had been killed in a battle.
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They also took hundreds of photographs, documented tribespeople and desert landscapes, and were even allowed to photograph the interior of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, one of few early Westerners allowed to do so.
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Taking refuge over winter in a remote lamasery, they meet the old Abbot Kou-En, who claims to recall a past-life encounter tales with a witch queen from the time of Alexander the Great.
