Andrei Znamenski: 2 books

Book cover of Red Shambhala

Red Shambhala

Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia

by Andrei Znamenski
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012

Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Shambhala played in Russian geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Perhaps the only one on the subject, Andrei Znamenski’s book presents a wholly...
Book cover of The Beauty of the Primitive

The Beauty of the Primitive

Shamanism and Western Imagination

by Andrei A. Znamenski
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and...
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