Citation: Far Beyond the Garden Gate Alexandra David- Neel’s

Journey to Lhasa by Don Brown. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

ISBN: 0618083642

Annotation: Follows life and travels of Alexandra David-Neel who

becomes a Buddhist scholar and ultimately trekked thousands of

miles to reach Lhasa in the early twentieth century.

Media: Pen, Ink, Watercolor.   

Curricular Connections: 8^th-10^th grade Philosophy.

Subjects: Biography, Alexandra David-Neel, Buddhism, Tibet,

Lhasa, Philosophy  

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