by Ian Baker
The Bright Torch Guide to the Secret Land of Pemako. A mind-treasure of Jedrung Jhampa Yungney (Jedrung Pung).
“Clear Light: A Guide to the Hidden-Land of Pemako,” from the text The Three Roots Wishfulfilling Jewel. Discovered by Rinchen Riwoche Jedrung Pung.
“Clear Mirror for Identifying the Five Miraculous Plants,” from a subsection of Padmasambhava’s The Luminous Web: Seven Profound Teachings which Open the Gates of the Hidden-Land. Revealed by Dorje Thokme.
Wish-fulfilling Light Rays: Opening the Door to the Hidden-Land and Removing the Heart’s Darkness. Discovered by Terton Orgyen Dorje Thokme (1746-1797).
Index
Abbey, Edward
Aberconway, Lord
Abhidharmakosa
abhisekha (initiation into Tantric mysteries)
Abors (Adis)
Addison, Joseph
Adis; see also Abors
Adrathang marshes
Africa, waterfalls in; see also Victoria Falls
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (film)
Ahmedabad
Ak Boghadan
Aladdin Distributors
alchemy; Tantric
Amanita muscaria
Amazon
American Dream, An (Mailer)
American Indians
amrita (nectar)
Amundsen, Roald
anatta (egolessness)
Angel Falls
Ani-la
Ani Rigsang
Anthropology Film Center
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Araliaceae (rhododendron)
Arboreum
Archer, William
Arunachal Pradesh
Aryans, ancient
Asian Development Bank
Assam
Assassins
Augustine, St.
Avalokiteshvara
avidya (not seeing)
Ayang Lhamo
Ayurvedic medicine
Azadem
azaleas
Bacot, Jacques
Bailey, Captain Frederick Marsham ; abandoned by porters; altitude measurements by; in Chimdro ; Kinthup and; Kundu Dorsempotrang described by; map by ; in Powo ; as secret agent; trail named after; on Younghusband expedition
Bailey, Colonel Eric
Baker, Henry Martyn
Baker, Samuel
Baker, William Edgar
bamboo
Banisteriopsis caapi
Bapa Lekshey
Barche Lamsel (Padmasambhava)
Bartram, William
Bayi; Public Security Bureau in
Bayu
BBC World Service
bears, Himalayan
Bedford, Captain James
Bengal, Bay of
Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation Act (1873)
Bentnick, Captain
beyul (hidden-lands) ; texts describing, see neyigs; see also Kyimolung; Pemako; Yolmo Kangra
Beyul Rigdzin Nam Sum (Three Knowledge-Holders of the Hidden-Land)
Bhagawati (goddess)
Bhakha Tulku ; consecration of union of Hamid and Minring by; fire offering performed by; and Kundu Dorsempotrang pilgrimage ; local protector deities
Bhakha Tulku, (cont.) described by; neyigs translated by ; Powo monastery of ; previous incarnations of
Bhareli River
Bhutan
Bible
Bielowski, Jill
Black Diamond Company
Blackfoot Indians
Blake, William
Blavatsky, Helena
Bodhgaya
bodhichitta (enlightened essence)
Bohm, David
Bohr, Neils
Bolsheviks
Bon
Book of Great Liberation, The (Padmasambhava)
Born in Tibet (Chogyam Trungpa)
Boswell, James
Bowles, Paul
Brahmaputra River
Brazil
Breashears, David
Bright Torch Guide to the Path to the Secret Land of Pemako, The (Jedrung Jhampa Yungney)
British explorers; see also Bailey, Captain Frederick Marsham; Cawdor, Lord Jack; Kingdon Ward, Captain Frank
British imperialism
British Raj ; Survey of India by
British South Africa Company
Brown University
Browning, Robert
Buddha ; commemoration of birth, death, and enlightenment of; female, see Dorje Pagmo; reality as perceived by; statues of; three bodies of; Tibetan translation of
Buddhism ; Adamantine; alliance with nature in; celestial realms of ; in China; circumambulation of holy places in; consecrated elixirs used in; cosmology of; Cultural Revolution and; duality of; enlightenment in ; highest teachings of; hunting and; imagination in; injunction against taking life in; integration of experience in; lotus flowers in; mantras; Mahayana; meeting place of heaven and earth in; paradise in ; paradoxes of; pilgrimage in ; prayer flags used in; Pure Lands of ; ritual instruments in; scholastic; scroll paintings of ; sutras; Tantric, see Tantric Buddhism; Thurman on; treasure-texts of; veil that obscures reality in ; waterfalls in Western practitioners of ; Zen; see also Dzogchen
Buddhist Hunters of the Tsangpo Gorges (film)
Bukowa, Countess Angelika Illona Lazansky von
Buluk
Buri Gandaki River
Burke, Edmund
Burma
Burnett, Thomas
Burton, Richard Francis
Bu Tashi
California, University of, Berkeley
Calvin, John
Cambodia
Cambridge University
camellias
Campbell, Ian
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Cape to Cairo Railway Line
Capra, Frank
Catholicism
Cawdor, Lady. See Bukowa
Cawdor, Lord Hugh
Cawdor, Lord Jack ; in Bayu; altitude measurements by; crossing of Tsangpo by; and Falls of Tsangpo ; farthest point of inner gorge reached by ; map by; in Pemakochung ; plant collecting by ; porters with; in Shekarlungpa; takins described by ; in Taschu
Celts
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
chakras (lotus-centers of psychic energy) ; of Dorje Pagmo
Champamati River
Chandramaharoshana Tantra
chaplasorwa (capital punishment rite)
charnal grounds
Chatral Rinpoche
Chatwin, Bruce
Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources
Chiamay, Lake
Chicago Tribune
Chimdro
Chimdro Chu river
Chimé Dorje
Chimé Gompo
Chimé Yangsang Né (Secret Place of Immortality)
China ; border disputes between India and ; courts of; Cultural Revolution in; failed uprising against; floods in; geologists from; highway between Tibet and; hydroelectric projects of ; immigrants in Tibet from; invasions of Tibet by ; military posts of; plans for development Tsangpo gorges by; poetry and art of ; sacred sites in; secret police of; tigers in ; traditional medicine in ; travel restrictions imposed by
China Central Television
Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences expedition
chinlap (flood of power)
Chod (Dharma practice)
Choeden
Choeje Lingpa
Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyur Lingpa
Chokyi N
ima
Chomolungma (Mother Goddess of the World), see Everest, Mount
Chonyi Rinpoche
Christianity; gnostic
Chulikata Mishmis
Church, Frederic
Churung Chu
Chutanka
Chu Yuan
chyawanaprahs (Ayurvedic herbal mix)
Clear Light
Clear Light: A Guide to the Hidden Land of Pemako (Jedrung)
Clear Mirror for Identifying the Five Miraculous Plants (Padmasambhava)
Clinton, Bill
Colca Canyon
Cole, Thomas
Colman, Ronald
Colorado River; Grand Canyon of
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Graduate School of Religion
Columbus, Christopher
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
conjunctio tremendum (paradoxical union of seemingly contradictory truths)
Conrad, Joseph
Cooke, Hope
Cookie (Gunn’s cook)
Copenhagen Interpretation
cordyceps sinesis (caterpillar fungus)
Cornell University Department of Ornithology
Cox, Kenneth
Culmination of the Supreme Path (Dzogchen text)
Culpepper, Maryanne
Currey, Steve
Curzon, Lord
Daglo Gampo monastery
Dai Benxio
dakini (female spirit)
Daku Sherpa
Dalai Lama
danang (sacred vision)
daos (double-edged swords)
Daphne papyracea
Dashing-La pass
datura
Dawa
Dawajati (Moon Bird)
Dawa Tsering
Dead Birds (film)
Dead Sea Scrolls
Dechen Karmo
Delightful True Stories of the Supreme Land of Pemako, The (Shepe Dorje)
Deng Xiaoping
Desideri, Hippolyte
Dhammapada (Buddha)
Dhansiri River
Dharamsala Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in
Dharmakaya
Dibang River
Dickenson, Emily
Dihang River
Dorje Drolma
Dorje Drolo
Dorje Lakpa
Dorje Lhunpo
Dorje Pagmo ; chakras of ; citadel of ; consort of; dark emanation of; funeral customs and; heart of ; Hidden Falls of ; Khamtrul Rinpoche’s dream about; lake of; mountain named after ; sulfur springs as urine of; Tantric counterpart of; transformative flood of power of; Tsangpo as life-current of ; visions of
Dorje Pagmo Dzong
Dorje Thokme
Dorje Trakdzong cave complex
Dorje Traktsen
Doshung-La (Pass of Sharp Stones)
Dotrakey
Drakar Tashi Dzong
Drakpa
Drejongpas
dremo (Himalayan brown bear)
Dremojung
dripyol (obscuring curtains)
Drukpa Kunleg
Duddul Dorje
Dudjom Lingpa
Dudjom Rinpoche
dudtsi (nectar)
Dugum Dani tribe
Dulshuk Lingpa
Dungchu Lhakhang
Dungley Phuntsok
Durga
Durrell, Lawrence
dzo (yak-cow hybrids)
Dzogchen (Great Perfection)
dzong (fortress)
earthquakes
East Middlebury River
Ecuador
Eden, Garden of
Einstein, Albert
Ekajati
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T.S.
Elliot, Colonel Henry
Elsner, Jas
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Endi Zhang
England; gardens in ; see also British
Eocene epoch
Ephraem, St.
Everest, Colonel George
Everest, Mount ; Breashears’s ascents of; Hillary’s and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of
Explorers Club
Falls of the Tsangpo ; Bailey’s search for ; Chinese expedition to ; descent to; as doorway into Yangsang ; Kingdon Ward’s search for; measurement of; in Mundy’s novel; Royal Geographical Society and; skepticism about existence of ; see also Dorje Pagmo, Hidden Falls of
Faust (Goethe)
Figus religiosia
Fisher, Richard D.
Flight of the Garuda
flycatchers, pygmy blue
Forest of Bliss (film)
Four Quartets, The (Eliot)
French explorers
gakyil (coil of joy)
ganachakra (Tantric feast)
Gande
Ganges River
Ganglam
Ganja Himal
gardens: English ; temple; see also Eden, Garden of
Gardner, Robert
Garra Lama
Gawalung-La pass
Gelugpa order
Genesis
Geng Quanru, see Gunn
geography, sacred
Gesar Epic
Gillenwater brothers ; on Fisher’s rafting trip ; on Kundu Dorsempotang expedition ; on Tsangpo expedition
gnats
go-che (rites)
Godemchen
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogdem
Goltsang Tulku
Gompo
Gompo Né
Gondwanaland, ancient continent of
Gopu-La pass
Goral, red
Gordon, Douglas
Great Flood, story of
Great Game
Great Perfection
Greece, ancient
Green Goddess, The (Archer)
Green Mountains
Gregorson, Dr.
Griffin, Captain George Knight
Guenther, Herbert
Guide to the Heart Center: The All-Gathering of Palace Vajrasattva that Liberates upon Seeing (Pawo Orgyen Chongon)
Guide to the Heart Center of the Great Sacred Land of Pemako (neyig)
Guiness Book of World Records
Gunn ; on Fisher’s expedition ; on Kundu Dorsempotang expedition
Gurkhas
Guru Rinpoche, see Padmasambhava
Guru Yoga
Gushri Khan
Gyala
Gyala Pelri (Glorious Peak) ; altitude of; glaciers of ; invoked as head of Dorje Pagmo; meditation caves on walls below; spur of
Gyala Sengdum
Gyamda Chu
Gyayul (Realm of Victory)
gyud (Tantra; that which joins together)
Haiti
Hajicek-Dobberstein, Scott
hallucinogenic plants, see psychoactive plants
Harisisddhi temple
Harman, Captain Henry
Harner, Michael
Harvard University: Department of Sanskrit and Tibetan Studies; Film Study Center
Harvey, Bryan ; and Falls of Tsangpo ; news release sent to
National Geographic by;
premier of film by
Hayagriva
Hazlitt, William
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
“Heart Mirror of Vajrasattva, The” (scroll)
Heisenberg, Werner
Hellenic medicine
Henry Foundation for Botanical Research
Heraclitus
Herzog, Werner
Hidden Forest of the Dakinis
Hillary, Edmund
Hilton, James
Himalayas ; climate of; eastern terminus of; fauna of (see also takin; tigers); flora of ; formation of; glacier-covered peaks of; jungles of; Kingdon Ward’s exploration of; porter strikes in; Sherpas on expeditions in; Storm in; streams of; Tanasserim range and ; Tantric tradition in; waterfalls in ; see also specific mountains
Hinduism
Holdich, Thomas Hungerford
Hooker, Joseph
horticulture
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary
Hugudurung caverns
Humi
Huxley, Aldous
Hymns on Paradise (Ephraem)
Ide, Laura
Iguazu, Falls of
Illuminating Lamp, The
India ; annexation of Sikkim by; border disputes between China and ; charnal ground in; cremation ghats in ; Frontier Administration Service of ; Garden of Eden and; Great Trigonometrical Survey of ; North Eastern Frontier Agency (NEFA) ; refugees from Chinese invasion of Tibet in; Tantric pilgrimage sites in
Indians, American
Indus River
initiation rites
insects
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Iran
Iraq
Irenaeus, St.
Irrawaddy River
Isabella, Queen of Spain
Islam
James, Henry
Jamuna River
Japan
Jatsun Nyingpo
Jayang
Jedrung Jhampa Yungney
Jedrung Rinpoche
Jedrung Trakpa Gyaltsen
Jenkins, Major
Jesuits
Jesus
Jetsun Migyur Palgyi Dronma
Jívaro Indians
John Damascene, St.
Johnston, Ned
Jokhang temple
Jomolungma (Goddess Mother of the World), see Everest, Mount
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
Jung, Carl
Jurassic period
Juvaini
K-2
Kaaba, circumambulation of
Kabir
Kafka, Franz
Kailas, Mount
Kameng River
Kanam Depas (hereditary rulers of Powo)
Kanchenjunga
Kangkang Sam-La pass
Kangla Karpo
kangling (thigh-bone trumpet)
Kangri Karpo range
Kanjanavanit, Oy ; Hamid and ; plant collecting by ; tigers and
Kanjur Rinpoche
