Shopping for Buddhas remains a must-read for anyone who has visited, or plans to visit, Nepal. .

He learns of the Nepalese concept of perfect art, seeks the advice of a guru who wears Ray-Bans and faces the maneuverings of shopkeepers who cater to foreign buyers. As a fellow-obsessive, seeking that perfect but reasonably priced Buddha, I couldn't help but enjoy this book - and the author's steady path to enlightenment, while keeping hold of the elusive Buddha was a treat. Shopping For Buddhas is a book that describes the author's search for a "perfect" Buddha statue during his stay in Nepal, which sounds simple, even dull. Greenwald (Mr. Raja's Neighborhood: Letters from Nepal, John Daniel, 1987) returns to Nepal, specifically Kathmandu, in search of the perfect Buddha statue.
Jeff Greenwald's classic travelogue follows his quest for the "perfect" Buddha statue. Today, though, contrary to any of my expectations, the escalator was running; and this I had to see.There were two enormous crowds. One was gathered at the foot of the escalator, where a sneering guard wielding a nightstick pushed the bravest of the brave, one by one, onto the verandah, the no-man’s-land at the base of the procession of hypnotic, endlessly ascending steps. Our items are handcrafted by skilled artists around. As I watched, I realized that the man was experiencing a beatific transformation. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World I had to buy and read this for school. Picture this - a combination of Woody Allen, Hermann Hesse and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and you'll have a feel for where Shopping for Buddhas is coming from. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations

I recommend this book to those of us who love to do a bit more than the average tourist but to those who like to get down to the real feeling of a place and its people. We also stock a wide variety of ritual supplies for your personal shrine and books on the practice of Tibetan Buddhism… Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Trending Travel & Transportation Books. These sophisticated voyeurs – many of them seasoned escalator veterans themselves – shouted with glee as each of the hapless riders was propelled, panicked and staggering, from the apparently motionless safety of the escalator onto the utterly unexpected menace presented by stable ground.I ran up and down the stairway parallel to the marvelous escalator, enslaved by the realization that I could not leave, could not bear to leave, before demonstrating my utter command, my consummate prowess with escalators. He is the author of six books, including The Size of the World, for which he created the first Internet travel blog. His knees weakened; and within a moment he was bowing, praying, practically prostrating himself before this divine sight, this river of steel issuing miraculously out of the ground, just as the holy Ganges flows from the scalp of the great lord Shiva! Here in this exotic land, we were compelled to raise the art of shopping to an experience that was, on the other hand, tinged with desperation, like shopping at Macy's during a one-day-only White Sale.Waist-high snow, a flying lama and the first escalator in Kathmandu are among the many attractions Greenwald experienced during his stays in Nepal.

In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Size: Buddha himself has been popularized as being larger in nature. Supporting Himalayan artisans in Nepal since 1999 by providing a market for their handmade goods. Lotus Sculpture carries a wide variety of Buddhist statues in many different styles and sizes for both home altars and outdoor gardens.