LIBROS DEL AUTOR: thomas k shor

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  • Krishna’s Mill
    Thomas K. Shor
    Short Stories from IndiaThe people you meet...A yogi in his Himalayan retreat who was once a millionaire Bombay cloth manufacturer, forced to return to keep his sons from killing each other over the empire he left behind.An American Buddhist, a 'Defender of the Dharma,' who confesses having defended his life, with death, and knows the feeling of a knife going into human flesh.A...
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    17,91 €

  • The Baba Downstairs
    Thomas K. Shor
    This book tells the true story of an Indian man named Vikram, whose strange fate it was to be born with a large birthmark identical to the birthmark of the holy man, or baba, who died immediately after blessing Vikram’s mother to have a son. So from the very beginning, Vikram was raised as the old baba’s reincarnation.At first Vikram goes along with it. He even believes it. He ...
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    15,32 €

  • The Monk and the Sly Chickpea
    Thomas K. Shor
    THE MONK AND THE SLY CHICKPEA tells the story of a journey the author and photographer Thomas K. Shor took in 1981 as a young man to the Greek island of Corfu. His journey starts in an idyllic coastal village in a house surrounded by lush fruit and olive trees.While many a young man’s journey to Greece would feature a coastal village and even a strip of white beach, Thomas K. S...
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    15,43 €

  • Into the Hands of the Unknown
    Thomas K. Shor
    'I think you should come with me to India'Thus begins the story of the author at the age of 21, when he happened to sit next to Ed Spencer, a brilliant 70-year-old ex-Harvard professor turned wandering holy man, who makes this offer within an hour of their meeting on a Greek ferry.Though unsure whether the old man is some kind of a bum or a realized being or both, he agrees to ...
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    15,04 €

  • Sculpture Garden of the Gods
    Thomas K. Shor
       The Greek island of Ikaria has gained notoriety lately for being a so-called “Blue Zone,” one of the select places on the planet where people live the longest. This otherwise obscure island was also known to the Ancients as the birthplace of the Greek god of ecstasy and wine, Dionysus, who was born upon the rocky ridge of mountain that runs down the center of the island.   S...
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    33,66 €

  • Ganges Lament
    Thomas K. Shor
    BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS FROM THE SACRED INDIAN CITY OF VARANASI   THESE INTIMATE PORTRAITS from the alleys close to the Ganges River were taken in winter when the river mist rose into the alleys, often persisting throughout the day. These alleys are among the oldest continuously inhabited places on the planet.   Varanasi is known as THE CITY OF LEARNING AND BURNI...
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    28,46 €

  • Leopard in the City
    Thomas K. Shor
    LEOPARD IN THE CITY is a fable for those longing to escape the urban tangle and return home to nature. Illustrated with over 45 black and white photographs, it tells the tale of a leopard, a real leopard of the jungle, who suddenly finds himself in the center of a modern Western metropolis, having to negotiate the rigid grid of streets. If seen, even by a single human bein...
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    11,55 €

  • A Step Away from Paradise
    Thomas K. Shor
    IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers-a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the one with the secret knowledge of how to ’open’ the Hidden Land. Then, one day, he came. His name was Tulshuk Lingpa.THIS BOOK T...
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    23,31 €