Ancient Futures Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World

by Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Lama, H.H. the Dalai; Matthiessen, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781578051625
• ISBN10: 1578051622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-12
• Publisher: Local Futures USA

Summary

A moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, or "Little Tibet," Ancient Futures is also a scathing critique of the global economy and a rallying call for economic localization.

Author Biography

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture and a pioneer in the emerging localization movement. A co-founder of the International Forum on Globalization, she is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, or Alternative Nobel Prize. She was the first Westerner in modern times to master the Ladakhi language.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. iv
Foreword	p. vi
Introduction	p. viii
Prologue: Learning from Ladakh	p. 1
Tradition
"Little Tibet"	p. 9
Living with the Land	p. 19
Doctors and Shamans	p. 37
We Have to Live Together	p. 45
An Unchoreographed Dance	p. 55
Buddhism-A Way of Life	p. 72
Joie de Vivre	p. 83
Change
The Coming of the West	p. 91
People from Mars	p. 94
Money Makes the World Go Around	p. 101
From Lama to Engineer	p. 105
Learning the Western Way	p. 110
A Pull to the Center	p. 115
A People Divided	p. 122
Looking Ahead
Nothing Is Black, Nothing Is White	p. 133
The Development Hoax	p. 141
Counter-Development	p. 157
The Ladakh Project	p. 167
Epilogue: "Ancient Futures"	p. 180
Afterword: An Economics of Happiness	p. 193
Further Reading	p. 213
Index	p. 219
About the Author	p. 225
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