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A luxurious tome that entices us onto an evocative voyage through the 100 finest travel and hospitality destinations in the world.

A remarkable testinmony to the Nepalese way of life.

A tender potrait of the soul of a place and its people that once was from one of Italy's finest photographers.

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In a corner of the Forbidden City, the Legation Quarter was a self-governing community of foreign diplomats and traders who coexisted with, but lived apart from, the people of Peking. This illustrated book traces the history of the Quarter from its foundation in the late 19th century to its half-abandoned, largely dilapidated state.

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The 16 Arhats are considered to have been either the actual disciples of the Buddha or followers who lived soon after his time. Featuring descriptions of artworks accompanied by color photographs, this exhibition catalog explores the relationship between Chinese and Tibetan images of these enlighten

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Explores pilgrimage as experienced in Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim faith communities. This book addresses shared goals of personal development and communal solidarity as deep human needs. It addresses religious diversity in a global perspective. It focuses on the continuity of pilgrimage and faith, and human motivations and experiences.

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The hereditary monarchy of the Wangchuk dynasty was established in 1907 in the independent Himalayan state of Bhutan, thus introducing one of the world's most recent experiments in kingship. The new order quickly replaced a theocracy founded in the seventeenth century by the first of the "Dharma Rajas, " a lineage of reincarnating lamas known by the title of Shabdrung. The first king of the new dynasty, Ugyen Wangchuk (1862-1926), was a charis...

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