by Ian Baker
Kant, Immanuel
Karmoling
Kashmir
Kathmandu ; altitude of; American college program in; festival season in; film about; monsoons in; National Archives in
Kaulback, Ronald
Kawa Tulku
Keats, John
Kew Gardens (London)
Kham
Khampas ; as anti-Communist freedom fighters ; Bacot and; Bailey and ; at Kundu Dorsempotrang; in Pemako; pilgrimages of; tigers and
Khamtrul Jamyang Dondrup Rinpoche
khandro dayig (runic alphabet)
Khandro Sang-La (Secret Pass of the Dakinis)
khata (offering scarf)
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Kile Foos
Kim (Kipling)
Kingdon Ward, Captain Frank ; altitude measurements by; in Bayu; crossing of Tsangpo by; and Falls of Tsangpo ; farthest point of inner gorge reached by ; in Gyala; in Kongpo; map by ; in Pemakochung; photographs taken by; plant collecting by ; porters with; in Shekarlungpa ; Tsangpo gorges described by
Kinski, Klaus
Kinthup
Kipling, Rudyard
Kissinger, Henry
Klondike
Konchok Wangpo
Kongpo Gyamda
Kongpopas
koras (circumambulations); of Kundu Dorsampotrant
korde rushen (Tantric practice)
Krodakali (Troma Nagmo)
Ksipa Yudzong
kudanpas (spirit mediums)
Kumaon
Kumari
Kundu Dorsempotrang (All Gathering Palace of Vajrasattva) ; absence from maps of; approach to ; Bhakha Tulku’s pilgrimage to ; circumambulation around ; door to; guardian spirits of ; hunting by Lopas near ; journey to region of; relocation of tigers to; recruitment for expedition to; Three Knowledge Holders of the Hidden-Land and
Kundu Lhatso (All-Gathering Essence Lake)
Kundu Potrang, see Kundu Dorsempotrang
Kung, Karen
Kunga
Kunsang Ozer Chimey Dorje
Kunzang Garwang Chimey Dorje
Kuypers, Christiaan
kyangma (lunar channel)
Kyimolung
Kyuchung Lotsawa
Ladakh
Lamaling
Lama’s Heart Advice which Dispels All Obstacles (Khamtrul Rinpoche)
Lama Topgye
Lamp for Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance (Dudjom Lingpa)
Landscape and Memory (Schama)
Lane, Beldon C.
Laos
lapis philosophorum
Larrandson, Ry
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper)
Laurasia, ancient continent of
Lawrence. H.
leeches
Lekdrup Dorje
Lekshey
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewinsky, Monica
lha (life-force)
Lhakpa
Lhasa ; Chinese eateries in ; Dalai Lama’s palace in; Jokhang temple in; Public Security Bureau in
lhashing (life sticks)
Lhatsun Namkha Jikme
Li Bai
Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness (Padmasambhava)
Lindgren, Scott
Linzi
Listening to the Waterfall (Zhang Feng)
Livingstone, David
Lo
Lo-nag (Black Savages)
Lohit River
Lokitri Pala
London, University of, School of Oriental and African Studies
Longchen Yeshe Dorje, see Kanjur Rinpoche
Longchenpa
Lopas ; conversion to Buddhism of; folklore of; as guides ; intermarriage of Monpas and ; language of; Shepe Dorje and ; female, wildness of
Lost Horizon (Hilton) ; film version of
lotus
Ludlow, George
Ludwig, Sharon
Luku
Luminous Web (Padmasambhava)
Lungten Ling (Valley of the Prophecy)
Lu Zhi
Mabberley. J.
macaque, Assamese
McEwan, Tom
McKenna, Terence
MacMahon, Henry
Magic and Mystery in Tibet (Neal)
magnolias
Mahakali
Mailer, Norman
Maitripa
Malemchi Khola River
Malla, Princess
Mallory, George Leigh
Manas River
Mandeldem hermitage
Mandeville, John
Mann, Thomas
Manthey, Eric
Mao Zedong
marig ki drib yol (curtains of ignorance)
Marpung
Marpung Gompa
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The (Blake)
Marsdalsfossen
Martin, Rebecca
Mazatec shamans
Mecca
Meconopsis betonicifolia
medicine, traditional Tibetan
Medok
Mekhong River
melong (all-reflecting mirror)
Men’s Journal
mendrup (consecrated elixir)
Mentsun Chenmo
metok chu-len (alchemical yoga)
Mexico
Middlebury College
migyu (Yeti)
Milarepa
Miller, Henry
Milton, John
Mingyur, Lama
Minring
Miris
Mishmis ; Chulikata
Miwang Sonam Topgyal
Mongolia
Mongols
Monpas ; Bailey and; on Falls of Tsangpo expedition; on Fisher’s expedition; hunting by ; intermarriage of Lopas and; Kingdon Ward and; language of ; in Medok; on Kundu Dorsempotrang expedition ; in poisoning cult
Mormons
Morshead, Captain Henry
Mosi-oa-Tunya, see Victoria Falls
Mountain Sanctuaries Association
Mountains & Rivers Travel
Mundy, Talbot
Munsey, Charlie
Musa paradisiaca
mushrooms; psychoactive
Musi-La pass
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (Eliade)
Nabokov, Vladimir
nagas (water spirits)
“Naked Mist” (Sardar)
Nalanda, Buddhist University of
Namcha Barwa (Blazing Meteorite) ; altitude of ; Chinese-Japanese expedition to ; ecological reserve on ; flora of; glaciers of ; hidden scrolls on ; ill-fated expedition on ; invoked as breasts of Dorje Pa; spur of; summit of; takin on ; Yangsang and
Nam-La pass
Nangé Orgyen Dorje Dranak
Naropa
National Geographic Society ; Exploration Council of
National Geographic Television
Nazis
né (sacred site) ; see also specific sites
ne-go (gateway to inner beyul)
né-kor (pilgrimage)
Neal, Alexandra David
Needham, Jack
Nelumbo nucifera
Nem Singh
Neoplatonism
Nepal ; expatriate community in; festival season in; National Archives of; psychotropic mushrooms in; rafting expeditions in ; riots in; Sherpas in
New Guinea
New Yorker, The
New York Theological Union
Neyding
Neydo Gompa monastery
Neygyap
ney
igs (guides to sacred places) ; accounts of apocalyptic times in; archival collections of; chakras of Dorje Pagmo in n13; at Dungchu Lhakhang; hermeneutic descriptions of; miraculous plants in ; translations of; see also titles of specific works
Neythang
ngakpas (lay lamas)
Niagara Falls
Nile, headwaters of
Nima
Nima Dorje
Nima Tso
Nirmanakaya
Nirvana
No Passport to Tibet (Bailey)
Norway; waterfalls in
Nyima Gyalpo
Nyingma tradition
Nyingtik Yabtsi
Nyuksang-La pass
Oddan Karpo
oleander
Olmula
Om: The Secret of Abhor Valley (Mundy)
Ongel
Onishi, Hiroshi
Opening the Door to the Hidden Land: Relieving the Heart’s Darkness (Tibetan text)
orchids
Orgyen
Orgyen Dorje Dranak
Orgyen Drodul Lingpa
Orinoco River
Orissa
Osel Pongkhang (Shelter of Clear Light)
Ott, Waltraut
Outer Passkey to the Hidden-Lands, The (Padmasambhava)
Outside magazine
owls
Oxford University
Padampa Sange
Padmasambhava ; attainment of liberation by; celestial paradise of ; consorts of ; on Dawajati; dharma treasures of; followers of ; initiation of ; on miraculous plants ; plot against; prayers to; prophecies of ; scriptures concealed by; on search for truth; statue of; Tantric Buddhism established by;
Padmasambhava (cont.) on transformation of negative circumstances ; wrathful manifestation of
Pagmo Drodrul Ling
Pagmo Sang Bab, see Dorje Pagmo, Hidden Falls of
Panchen Lama
Pangea
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Parana’ River
Parenteau, Robert
Pasang
Passenger, The (film)
Patagonian icecap
Pawo Orgyen Chongon
Paz, Octavio
Peganum harmala
Pelung
Pemako (Hidden Land Arrayed Like a Lotus); ascent out of; Bhakha Tulku in; birds of; British in; Chinese-Indian dispute over; circumambulations of; death in; distribution of work and income in; doors into innermost center of; dreams about ; ecosystem of; Eden compared with; entry into; flood in; flora of ; gear needed for journeys to; goddess mythology of(see also Dorje Pagmo); guardian spirits of ; hunting in ; innermost heart of; insects of; Jedrung Rinpoche in; journey from Gyala to ; Kingdon Ward and Cawdor in; Kinthup in ; Khamtrul Rinpoche in ; monasteries in(see also Pemakochung); monsoon clouds in ; Padmasambhava’s revelations of ; passes through Himalayas to (see also specific passes); People’s Liberation Army in; pilgrimages to ; poisoning cults in ; Powo and; promotion of trips to; reopened by Chinese; restrictions on travel to ; sacred geography of ; sacred sites in (see also Kundu Dorsempotrang); sacred scrolls describing(see also neyigs); settled areas of ; Shepe Dorje in; Sherpas and; survey tours of; television documentary on ; tigers in ; tree bridges of; tribal inhabitants of; unexplored section of; weather in ; women of; see also Tsangpo River
Pemakochung ; Bailey and Morshead at; earthquake at; falls below ; Kinthup at; waterfalls described in texts at
Pema Lingpa
Pema Rigdzin
Pema Roltso
Pema Shelri (Lotus Crystal Mountain)
Pemathang (Lotus Fields)
Pemayangtse monastery
Pemba
Pemthang (Sandy Plains)
Persia
Peru
Philo
Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Burke)
Piegan Indians
Pines of Mount Tiantai, The (Dai Benxio)
Pink Floyd
pitha (Tantric power places)
Pleistocene epoch
Po Tsangpo River ; Bailey and Morshead on; bridges across; flooding of; kayakers on; rafting trip on
Po Yigrong River, see Po Tsangpo River
Pobas
Podopyllum aurantiocaule
Poe, Edgar Allan
Polaney
Polungpa
poppy, blue
Pound, Ezra
powa (transference of consciousness)
Powo ; Bailey and Morshead in ; Chinese restrictions on travel to ; flora of; fortress of Dorje Traktsen in; hereditary rulers of ; monasteries in ; offended guardian spirits in; Po Tsangpo in; terma discovered in
Prelude, The (Wordsworth)
Proust, Marcel
psilocybin
psychoactive plants
Puchu Serkyi Lhakhang
Pulung Sangye Dorje
Pundits
Pungpung-La pass
Puntsok
purba (magical dagger)
quantum physics
Qui Minjiang
railroads
Rainbow Falls
rangjung (self-manifested image)
Rauwolfia serpentina (Indian snake-root)
Red Panda Expeditions, Ltd.
Reformation
Reichenbach Falls
Revelations, Book of
Rheum nobile
rhododendrons
Richter scale
Riddle of the Tsango Gorges (Kingdon Ward)
Rigpa Selwang (Dzogchen empowerment)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rimbaud, Arthur
rinchen rilbu (Tibetan precious pills)
Rinchen Riwoche Jedrung Jhampa Yungney
Rinchenpung; monastery of
riwosangchod (Tantric fire offering)
Robinson, William
Rochen
rochik (one taste)
Rocky Mountains
roma (solar channel)
Romanticism
Rong Chu River
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rothschild, Lionel de
Royal Geographical Society
Rubies, Joan-Pau
rue, Syrian
Rushdie, Salmon
Ruskin, John
Russians
Ryder, Captain C.H.D.
Rynning, Ralph
Sacred and the Profane, The (Eliade)
Sacred Theory of Earth (Burnett)
Sadhana for Clearing the Obstacles for Entering the Hidden Land of Pemako (Jatsun Nyingpo)
Sakyadevi
Salkeld, John
Salween River
Sambhogakaya nés
samsara (world of everyday thought and experience)
Samsara, river of
sandhabhasa (“twilight language”)
Sangdo Pelri
Sanglung
Sanglung Chu
Sangwa Dechen Puk (Secret Cave of Bliss)
Sangye Lhundrup
Sangye Lingpa
Sangye Menla
Sangye Tenzing
Sangye Tsering
sangyig (Tantric practice)
Sanjay, Takam
Sankosh River
Sanskrit
Saraha
Saralbhanga River
Saraswati, Semo
Sardar, Hamid ; on abortive expedition to Tsangpo; in Central Asia ; on Falls of Tsangpo expedition ; on Kundu Dorsempotang expedition ; Kingdon Ward’s route followed by; Kyimolung pilgrimage of; takin hunt filmed ; women and
Satanic Verses (
Rushdie)
Saut d’Eau, waterfall of
Schaller, George
Schama, Simon
School for International Training
Schroeder, Barbet
Scobie, Claire
Scott, Robert Falcon
sechu (earth treasures vases)
Secrets of the Tsangpo Gorge (film)
Self-Liberation through Hearing of the Great Blissful Land of Pemako (Padmasambhava)
Selkirk Range
Semo Dechen
Senge
Serap Gyatso
sghog-ser (yellow scroll)
sgrib (psycho-physical obscurations)
Shakespeare, William
shaktipith (Tantric pilgrimage place)
shamanism
Shangri-La, legend of
Shatidzong
Shati-La pass
Shatipemayangdzong
Shechen-La pass
Shekar-La (White Crystal Pass)
Shekarlungpa (Valley of the White Crystal)
Shekar Potrang
Shelkichorten (Crystal Stupa)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shepe Dorje, Lelung ; dreams of; plants and trees documented by; on leeches; lopas and; paradise of; spirit medium traveling companions of ; on sulfur springs ; waterfall described by
Sherab
Sherpas ; on Falls of Tsangpo expedition ; on Kundu Dorsempotang expedition
shi-sa (dying ground)
shidro (deities)
Shingchongma
shingkam (Buddhist paradise)
Shinje Badong
Shinje Chogyal; waterfall of
Shinje Tsedak (Yamantaka)
Shipton, Eric
Shugendo sect
Shushwap Indians
Siddhartha, Prince, see Buddha
siddhis (physiological and psychic powers)
Sikkim
Sitavana (Cool Grove)
Smithsonian Institution
snake-root, Indian
snakes
Solace of Fierce Landscapes, The (Lane)
Solu-Khumbu
Sonam
Sonam Chumbi
Sonam Deki
Sonam Dekyi
Sonam Denjongpa
Sonam Nima
Sonam Wangpo
Songtsengampo
Sorya Senge
South Pole, race for
Southey, Robert
Speke, John Hanning
Srinmo
Stalker (film)
Stanley, Henry Morton
Stevens, Wallace
Storm, Ken, Jr. ; on abortive expedition to Tsangpo ; on Falls of Tsangpo expedition ; on Fisher’s expedition ; Kingdon Ward’s route followed by ; literary and artistic interests of
Strassburg, Gottfried von