"The plane is lifting, the moon is the color of bright rust, glowing, misshapen, nearly full. Rivers of cars and strings of lights are shining below. I'll be back in Poland tomorrow for the first time in fifty-one years." Nadia Korczak, a professional musician living in New York, learns a secret from her dying father. Determined to find the whole truth, she takes his ashes back to a village on the banks of the Vistula River in Poland. There, she begins to search for the child her mother helped to hide during World War II. In the lives of the people she meets, Nadia discovers echoes of the war...
"The plane is lifting, the moon is the color of bright rust, glowing, misshapen, nearly full. Rivers of cars and strings of lights are shining below. ...
Two Tibetan girls escaped from Tibet at the age of five and ten and traveled over the mountains into Nepal and finally to India in search of a more promising future. They walked over some of the roughest terrain in the world and left everything they knew behind. Their poignant stories, shared by thousands of other Tibetan children, trace the path of their parents' deliberations, their painful and hazardous journeys, and their new lives as students in a Tibetan Children's Village School in northern India.
Two Tibetan girls escaped from Tibet at the age of five and ten and traveled over the mountains into Nepal and finally to India in search of a more pr...
An introduction to Tibetan medicine by one of its foremost practitioners. In the West, people often think of Tibetan medicine primarily as a spiritual healing system, but it is important to remember that it is actually a medical science developed through thousands of years of objective analysis, intuition and insight.
An introduction to Tibetan medicine by one of its foremost practitioners. In the West, people often think of Tibetan medicine primarily as a spiritual...
