{"id":1197,"date":"2023-04-24T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:00:49","slug":"the-heart-of-the-world-a-journey-to-tibets-lost-paradise-by-ian-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/the-heart-of-the-world-a-journey-to-tibets-lost-paradise-by-ian-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet\u2019s Lost Paradise by Ian Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_40737\"  width=\"840\" height=\"472\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ChmFBwch6Y?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet\u2019s Lost Paradise tells the story of Ian Baker&#8217;s decades-long quest for the literary and geographical sources of Shangri-la, a mythical paradise in the remotest regions of the Himalayas. His research led him on multiple journeys in Tibet as well as into esoteric Tibetan texts describing beyul, or hidden-lands.<\/p>\n<p>Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of these legendary hidden-lands lies in the world\u2019s deepest gorge, at the eastern edge of the Himalayan range, veiled by a colossal waterfall in the depths of the forbidding Tsangpo gorge. After years of research and investigation, Buddhist scholar and world-class climber Ian Baker and his team made worldwide news by reaching the bottom of the Tsangpo gorge and finding a magnificent 108-foot-high waterfall \u2013 the legendary grail of both Western explorers and Tibetan seekers and the prophesied door to the innermost hidden-land of Beyul Pemak\u00f6, the Hidden Land Arrayed Like a Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>The Heart of the World recounts one of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery ever told \u2013 an extraordinary journey into one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on earth, a meditation on humankind&#8217;s place in nature, and a pilgrimage to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>About the Speaker: Ian Baker is an anthropologist, author, and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and Tantric yoga. He was recognised by The National Geographic Society as one of seven \u2018Explorers for the Millennium\u2019 for his fieldwork connected with the Tibetan tradition of hidden-lands (beyul) and the discovery of the lost &#8216;Falls of the Tsangpo&#8217;, the subject of his newly reissued book, The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet\u2019s Lost Paradise, which explores the geographical and literary sources of the legend of Shangri-la in the remotest regions of the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B002IEUUX8&amp;preview=inline&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_N3K6ZVQ5JFSKANW6MEJN\" width=\"336\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet\u2019s Lost Paradise tells the story of Ian Baker&#8217;s decades-long quest for the literary and geographical sources of Shangri-la, a mythical paradise in the remotest regions of the Himalayas. His research led him on multiple journeys in Tibet as well as into esoteric Tibetan texts describing beyul, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/the-heart-of-the-world-a-journey-to-tibets-lost-paradise-by-ian-baker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet\u2019s Lost Paradise by Ian Baker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,137,87,95],"tags":[51,35,78,122,109],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-books","category-buddhism","category-history","category-lectures","category-talks","tag-books","tag-buddhism","tag-lectures","tag-shamanism","tag-talks","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1150,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/willa-blythe-baker-guided-meditation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"Willa Blythe Baker Guided Meditation","author":"admin","date":"April 15, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8QbZze6K6Xk Willa Blythe Baker offers practices and teachings for Tricycle's Online Practice Session series!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/category\/truth\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/8QbZze6K6Xk\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1190,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/the-goodman-lectures-the-relatable-and-extraordinary-life-of-sera-khandro-dewe-dorje\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":1},"title":"The Goodman Lectures: The Relatable and Extraordinary Life of Sera Khandro Dew\u00e9 Dorj\u00e9","author":"admin","date":"April 22, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z9bX8IJRRQw \"As the most prolific historical Tibetan Buddhist woman prior to the 1950s, Sera Khandro Dew\u00e9 Dorj\u00e9 presents a candid and nuanced female perspective on what it means to embody Vajrayana Buddhist ideals. 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