Eagle, golden, 185, 234
Eckhardt, Meister, 62, 112-13
Egypt, ancient, 55, 58
Eido Roshi, 112-13, 135, 294, 307
Eight-fold Path (Buddhist), 18
Einstein, Albert, 63, 131
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 64
Energy, and identity with matter, 66
Enlightenment (satori) 18-19, 62, 93, 109, 113
"Enlightenment" tree: see Bodhi
Eskimos, 34, 54, 55, 67, 94
Everest, Mount, 77, 105, 128, 129, 158, 265, 326
Fire-Mist (Hindu myth), and nebula theory, 64
Four Noble Truths (Buddhist), 17-18
Francis, Saint, 62
Freedom, and "crazy wisdom," 88, 118
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 15
Ganges Plain, 4, 17, 20, 29, 147, 326
Ganges River, 12, 30
Gautama, Siddhartha, 17; see also Buddha; Sakyamuni
Gaya (India), 17, 18, 232
Gelug-pa sect, 171, 197
Geneva (Switzerland), 79
Ghustang River, 82
Gilgit (India), 122
Gobi Desert, 56
Gorakhpur (India), 19
Goral (goat-antelope), 205
Gorkhas, 5, 22, 26, 121, 160
"Great death" (Buddhist), 95, 135
Great Spirit (American Indian), 57
Greece, 207; ancient, 58
Griffon, Himalayan, 107, 209, 237
Gurdjieff, George, 43
Gurungs, 21, 27, 53, 55, 282
Gyaltsen (camp assistant), 24, 26, 33, 75, 87, 105, 149, 153, 167, 182, 209, 235, 240, 256, 260, 275, 279, 289, 323, 330
Haikus, Schaller's, 61, 251
Hallucinogens, 44, 46-47, 241, 307
Hamsun, Knut, 43
Hanuman (Hindu god), 128
"Heart-Drops from the Great Space," 122 Heart Sutra: see Sutra
Heroin, 44
Hesse, Hermann, 43
Hinayana Buddhism: see Buddhism
Hinduism, 33-34, 67-68, 94, 122, 123, 138
Hindus, 12, 16, 20-21, 26, 107, 128, 142, 196, 309, 320
Hittites, 58
Hoopoe (Upupa), 49, 95
Hrap Gompa, 283
Hui-Neng, 121
Hwang Ho River, 30
I Ching ("Book of Changes"), 171
India, 4, 12, 17, 23, 26, 30, 35, 101, 122, 124, 142, 172, 197, 276, 326; Muslim holy wars in, 124
Indians, American, 54-57, 63, 84
Indus River, 30, 122, 196
Industrial revolution, 63
Intuition, and Zen teachings. 111
Intuitive sciences of East, 63
Ions, negative, and prana, 229
Jaljala Ridge, 49, 53
James, William, 64
Jamoson (Nepal), 31, 87, 225
Jang-bu (head sherpa), 20, 26, 33, 39, 62, 75, 87, 90, 105-6. 115, 118, 127, 149, 155, 160, 163-64, 167-70, 193-94, 200. 226, 234-35, 240, 251-53, 260, 274-79, 293, 529-30; translates history of Lama of Shey, 241-44
Jang La, 59, 68, 84, 90, 115-19, 127,131, 196, 206, 209, 312
Japan, 35, 42, 88, 107, 123, 278, 326
Jare River, 26
Jesus Christ, 113, 310
Joseph of Cupertino, Saint, 158
Journey to Shambala, 196
Jumla (Nepal), 87, 133, 153, 235, 240, 278, 295, 309, 315, 316-17, 320-21, 323, 325, 328, 330
Jung, Carl, 45-46
Kagyu-pa sect, 197, 242
Kailas, Mount, 196
Kalachakra (Circle of Time), 196-97; see also Nyingma
Kali (Hindu goddess), 29, 37-38
Kali Gandaki River, 3,14,19,29-31, 49. 53, 127, 143, 225, 326
Kali Yuga (Dark Age), 315
Kallbon (Nepal), 312
Kamis, 81-82, 84, 165, 282
Kang La, 68, 134, 145, 148,149, 163, 166-68, 177-78, 179, 181-82, 183, 191, 195, 209, 213, 226, 231-32, 240, 263, 293, 306
Kangling: see Musical instruments
Kanjiroba Range, 3, 68, 117, 133-34, 136, 141, 146, 157,162, 178, 193, 220, 232, 292, 295, 297, 323
Kanju River: see Black River
Kannon (Kanzeon): see Sutra
Karma, 33-34, 57, 109
Karma Dorje, 226, 281-82, 285-86, 291, 293, 295, 300, 309, 313
Karma-pa sect, 197, 244, 252, 274
Karnali River, 50,196, 227, 263
Kasapa, 28, 332
Kashmir (India), 122, 205
Kathmandu (Nepal), 4-5,17, 20, 23-24, 27, 40, 51, 53, 59-60, 62, 76, 85, 116, 129, 161, 209, 214, 225, 232, 237, 251, 281, 323. 325-26, 329-32
Kham-pas, 31,193, 244, 312, 331
Khang (Tibet), 243
Khumbu (Nepal). 105, 173, 271, 318
Khundu (Nepal), 327
Kierkegaard, Soren, 43
Koan (Zen paradox), 135, 249, 266
Korea, 35
Kublai Khan, 197
Kukri (hatchet-knife), 26, 81
Kundalini yoga, 122
Kusinara (India), 19, 23
Kusma (Nepal), 29
Ladakh (India), 122, 205
Lahore (Pakistan), 39
Lamaism, 318
Lammergeier, 237, 291
Langurs, 127-29
Lao-tzu, 15, 178
Leopard, snow: see Snow leopard
Levitation, 158
Lhasa (Tibet), 161
Liberation, "Short Path" to, 197, 242
Lonicera (bush honeysuckle). 207
Love, Deborah, 45-47, 78-80, 110, 112,239, 301; illness and death of, 80-81, 110-13, 175, 294; quoted, 78, 295
LSD, 44, 46
Lumbini, 17, 326
Lung-gom (Tantric discipline), 157
Machhapuchare, 6, 27, 326
Magars, 13, 20, 50, 52, 53, 124
Magyandi River, 32, 33, 41
Mahakala (Lord of Death), 196-97
Mahayana Buddhism: see Buddhism
Maitreya (Buddha-to-come). 123, 280
Makalu, 105
Manang (Tibet), 242
Manaslu, 105
Manjusri, 196, 280
Marijuana, 85,138, 219, 302-3
Marpa, Lama, 96, 197,199. 231, 242
Marsa River, 21
Masta (mountain god), 137, 138, 300, 303, 312
Matter, identity with energy, 66
Matthiessen, Alex, 39-40, 41-42, 59-60; letter to father, 40
Matthiessen, Lucas, 39
Matthiessen, Rue, 39
Matthiessen, Sara, 39
Maya, doctrine of, 67-68
Meditation, 66, 93-94, 110-12, 179, 197, 210, 216-18, 237, 242, 250, 303, 324; by Christian mystics, 63; purpose of, 257; Sakyamuni's practice of, 18, 19, 35
Mekong River, 30
Melville, Herman, 64
Mescaline, 44, 46
Metempsychosis, 57; see also Reincarnation
Middle Path, Buddha's, 19
Milarepa, Lama, 93, 95, 96, 99, 158, 197, 199, 231, 242. 326; quoted, 93, 138, 219
Mind: all phenomena as crystallizations of, 66; Universal, 67, 110
Modir River, 24, 26
Mongolia, 159, 280
Mongols, 34, 54
Moon bear: see Bear, moon
Muktinath (Tibet), 242
Muni (Nepal). 317, 320
Murwa (Nepal), 144, 182, 235, 281, 287, 290, 292-93, 295-96, 300, 306, 309, 314, 321
Murwa River, 293, 295-96
Musical instruments: lute (danyen), 276-77, 280-82; trumpet (kangling), 250
Muslims, 172
Mustang (Nepal), 14, 20, 29, 31, 231, 272, 282
Mysticism, 58, 62-68, 113
Naljorpa, 57, 135, 318
Namche Bazaar, 297, 327
Namdo (Nepal), 281, 329
Namdo Pass, 286-87, 289, 297, 329
Namgung Gompa, 265, 274-75, 281, 329
Nam-Khong River, 275, 281, 329
Nam-Khong Valley, 274, 276, 279, 284
Namu (Shey hostess). 194, 202, 214-15, 224-25, 230-31, 235, 255
; Napier, John, 130
Naropa, 197, 199
Negative ions, and prana, 229
Nen (attention to present), 109
Nepal, 3, 4, 11,14,20,24-25, 26, 27, 31, 53, 60, 77, 85, 87, 108, 121, 129, 132-33, 178, 265, 282, 312, 321, 328, 331; bharal in, see Bharal; erosion problem of, I'i-lAi mastif[s in, 51, 126; wildlife in. 14; and yeti, see Yeti
Nepalganj Road, 323
New Guinea, 44
Newars, 17
Nirvana, 34, 93, 108, 109, 310
North Asia: see Asia
Nurpu (mountain god), 253, 297, 300
Nyingma (Old Sect of Tibetan Buddhism), 122-23, 171, 196; see also Kalachakra
Obo (upright slabs), 280
OM MANi PADME HUM (mantra), 52, 69, 107-8; carved on boulders, 147, 151, 295; and prayer wheels at Shey, 192, 199, 263; suited to ascent of mountain, 135; translation of, 108-9
Ongdi (trader), 224-26, 232, 263, 271, 282, 331
Ovis (sheep), 205, 262
Padma Sambhava, 122-23,146, 151, 199, 244, 280
Paharis, 20, 30, 81
Pakistan, 24, 39, 62,159, 207, 331
Pamawongal, Lama, 242
Panda, red, 41, 316
Paniavas (Nepal), 30
Patan (Nepal), 331
Pema River. 84, 86
Peru, 44
Phagune Gorge, 75-76
Phoksumdo Lake, 59,144, 146, 151, 156, 167, 199, 289, 296, 330-31
Phoksumdo River, 68, 157, 160-61, 164, 297, 306, 330
Phu-Tsering (cook and camp assistant), 21, 26, 33, 39, 62, 76, 87, 98, 105-8, 128, 144, 149, 156, 167-68, 170, 172-74, 180, 184, 200, 211, 251-52, 271, 329-30
"Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The" (Grahame), 43
Pirim (porter), 37, 53, 104, 125, 132, 149, 331
Plato, 63
Pokhara (Nepal), 5-6, 11-13, 15, 20-21, 22, 24, 51, 88, 161, 162, 309, 320
Polo, Marco, 31, 158-59, 197
Prajna, 18, 121
Prana, 57, 157, 229
Prayer: drums (damaru), 192, 250; flags (lung-p'ar), 192, 237, 253; stones, 199-200, 263-64; wheels, 192, 199-200, 263-64, 332
Proust, Marcel, 137
Pseudois: see Bharal
Psilocybin, 44
Pung-mo (Nepal), 143, 151, 306, 310
Putha Hiunchuli, 77, 103
Rajgir (India), 17-18
Raka (Nepal), 282, 284-86, 309, 329
Raka Pass, 287
Rapti River, 17
Ravens, 216
Redstarts, Asian (Phoenicurus) 50
Reincarnation, 93; see also Metempsychosis Relativity, theory of, 63, 66
Rig Veda, 17, 64, 102
Ring-mo (Nepal), 146-51, 153, 155, 167, 173, 208, 231-32, 240, 278, 279, 317, 323
Ring-mos, 150, 157, 160, 163, 165-68, 170, 181-82
Robin accentor (Prunella), 208
Rohagaon (Nepal), 137-40, 144, 282, 300, 302-3, 305, 309
Roman (Nepal), 306-7, 314-15
Sahara, 56
Sakyamuni, 17-19, 22-23, 28, 34-35, 93, 109, 121-23, 150, 158, 232, 244, 280, 326; enlightenment of, 18-19; see also Buddha
Sakya-pa sect, 197, 280
Sal Gompa, 281
Saldang (Nepal), 181-82, 194, 200, 212, 213, 220, 224-26, 230-31, 234-35, 244, 275, 279-80, 293
Saligrams, 30
Samadhi, 94, 96, 113
Samantabhadra, 123, 199
Samling Monastery, 200, 213, 220, 234, 263
Samsara, 22, 34, 108-9
Sangbai-Dagpo (Concealed Lords), 318
Sangha, 109-10
Samath (India), 4, 18
Sasquatch, 128, 130-31; see also Bigfoot; Yeti
Satori (enlightenment), 18-19, 62, 93, 109, 113
Saure River, 104, 107, 109,115, 119
Sayan Range, 159
Schaller, George, 3-5,14, 22-23, 25, 27, 36-37, 39, 50-51, 60, 77-78, 81, 90-91, 97-103, 105-8, 116, 131, 156, 161-63, 165-74, 180-81, 184, 198, 201, 204, 210-11, 213, 229, 250-51, 259-60, 271-73, 283, 287-88, 328-31; on Caprini (sheep and goats), 204-7, 247, 262-63; on Eastern thought, 62-63; haikus by, 61, 251; letter from, 329-30; Shey Gompa entered by, 265; on snow leopard, 3, 99-100, 158-59, 227, 255, 330; snow leopard seen by, 330; on yeti, 129-30
Schaller, Kay, 36, 39, 60, 62
Science: classifies world into different groups of connections, 65-66; intuitive, of East, 63; progress of, toward theories of fundamental unity, 63; and Vedas, 68
Seng River, 98, 101, 127
Senniti, dance of, 88-89
Serengeti Plain (East Africa), 3, 36, 103
Shamanism, 56-57, 67
Shambala, 56, 122, 178
Sh'ang Sh'ung, 150, 200, 300
Sheep (Oviy), 205, 262
Sherpas, 11, 20, 33-34, 53, 88, 105, 132, 133, 140, 168, 173-74, 208-9, 272, 312. 318, 326
Shey Gompa: see Crystal Monastery
Shey Pass, 202, 213, 235, 293, 329
Shipton, Eric, 129-30
Shiva (Hindu god), 29, 38
"Short Path": see Liberation Sibang (Nepal), 38
Siberia, 55
Snow blindness, 104-5
Snow leopard, 3, 97, 99-100, 107, 129, 158-59, 167, 169, 227-28, 236-37, 243, 249-55, 258-60, 262, 266, 271, 290, 298-99, 311, 328; Milarepa transformed into, 158; seen by Schaller, 330; and yogin Drutob Senge Yeshe, 243, 253
Soen Roshi, 107, 182, 253, 310
Somdo mountain, 200, 220, 243, 246, 252, 255, 258,271, 297,329
Sonam, 194, 203, 222-23. 247
Sonrikot (Nepal), 314-15
Southeast Asia: see Asia
Sron Tsan Gampo, 244
Stag, Sikldm, 198, 243
Stupa, defined, 123
Sufism, 49-50, 58, 88 Suli River, 68, 133, 134, 140-44, 154, 174, 239, 299, 300-1, 305-6
Sumerians, 58
Sutlej River, 196
Sutra: Heart, 208, 217-18; Kannon (Kanzeon), 107, 109-10,112,122,135,208
Swastika, 142
Swayambhunath (Nepal), 331
Tahr (Hemitragus), 81, 205, 206
Takang (Tibet), 242
Takla, 241, 252
Tamangs, 20, 53, 76, 77, 81, 88, 97, 104, 124-25, 136, 149, 305, 331
Tantras, 121-22, 171, 196
Tantric Buddhism: see Buddhism
Taoism, 35, 45, 57,178, 199, 310
Tara (Ddhna), 121-22, 198, 318
Tarakot (Nepal), 59, 90, 105, 118, 120-21, 123-25, 127, 133, 138, 145, 235, 309, 310; headman of, 99-100, 116
Tarap (Nepal), 59, 213, 226, 234,286
Tarap River, 121, 126
Tartars, 196, 238, 290, 302
Tasi Fintso, 214
Tatopani (Nepal), 32-33
Tcha (Nepal), 282-84, 285, 329
Technology, 64
Telepathy, 57
Tende Samnug, 226, 282, 285-86, 288, 289, 293, 300. 309
Tengboche Monastery, 265
Thailand, 44
Thankas (cloth paintings), 244, 281
Thoreau, Henry David, 43
Tibet, 3-4,11, 14, 19-20, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 51, 55-56, 93, 99, 102, 107,122. 126, 150, 159, 177, 196-98, 200, 205, 231, 241, 244, 272, 275, 280, 312, 332; Buddhism established in, 122-23, 150-51; and Landor's In the Forbidden Landf 160; wild yaks in, 145
Tibetan Plateau, 3, 30, 100, 131, 132,193,196, 207, 279, 287
Tibrikot (Nepal), 133, 240, 296, 309
Tichu-Rong, 121, 123, 125, 232
Tien Shan Mountains, 159
Tila River, 321-23
Tilopa, 199, 241
Time: circular, 57; maya as, 67; and space, identity of, 63; in Tibetan Buddhism, 196; universal, beyond apprehension, 64
Trapa (aspirant monk), 241, 244
Trisuli River, 5, 53
Tsakang hermitage. 209-10. 227, 228, 235, 241, 243, 250-51, 259, 263, 265; see also Crystal Monastery; Tupjuk, Lama
Tsampa (barley or maize meal), 55, 77, 88, 165, 244, 252, 260, 304
Tscharka (Dolpo), 31, 88
Tsurton-Wang-Gay, 231
Tukten (porter and ca
mp assistant), 15, 26, 28, 33, 53-54, 81-82, 87-88, 97, 100, 105, 132, 137, 149, 153, 177, 182, 209, 221, 226, 235, 240, 249-60, 272, 273, 277-78, 289, 292-93, 296, 298, 300, 302, 304, 310-28, 331-32
Tulku (incarnate lama), 197, 235, 242, 275
Tulo Kansha, 53, 331
Tundu, 214-15, 264-65
Tungus, 55
Tupjuk, Lama, 4, 197-98, 203, 235, 241^5, 252-54, 265, 271, 274. 311
Tuptok Sang Hisay, 242
Turkey, 23
Uncreated, the, 65, 94 Universal Mind, 67, 110
Universe: Buddha's identity with, 67; and meditation, 216; in mystical vision, 66-67; in Rig Veda, and "Big Bang" theory, 64; rotation of, and Wheel of Dharma, 199; as scripture of Zen, 35
Upamshads, 17
U.S.S.R., 159
Uto-Aztecan language group, 63
Uttar Ganga River, 50, 82
Varanasi (India), 4,12,17-18
Vedas, 17-18, 57, 63, 68
Vulture, Egyptian, 14
Water demons (klu), 284
White River (Yeju River), 193-94, 200, 208, 213. 221, 224, 236,260
Whitman, Walt, 64
Wildlife sanctuaries, Asian, need to establish, 14
Wolves, Asian timber, 201-2, 203-4
Yab-yum of sexual union, 171
Yaje, 44
Yaks, 144, 145, 147, 214, 290
Yamarkhar (Nepal), 83-85, 87, 90, 127, 219, 282, 302
Yamdi River, 14, 20-21, 253
Yangtze River, 30
Yang-yin, 171
Yeju River: see White River
Yeti, 41, 101, 128-31, 143, 173-74, 265, 317-19; see also Bigfoot; Sasquatch
Yoga, 17-18, 57, 121, 157; kimdalini, 122
Zen Buddhism, 5, 35, 45, 56, 62, 94, 111-12, 123, 197, 208
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 62
Zendo (New York), 110-11
Zuwa River, 316, 320-22
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As a naturalist-explorer, Peter Matthiessen has been a member of expeditions to remote regions of all five continents, including the Amazon jungles, the Canadian Northwest Territories, the Sudan, New Guinea and Nepal. A former commercial fisherman and charter-boat captain, he has always been interested in marine biology, and participated as a diver in the worldwide search for the great white shark that culminated in his book Blue Meridian and in the film Blue Water, White Death. His fiction includes Race Rock, Partisans, Raditzer, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and his most recent novel, Far Tortuga, which was one of the most prominently reviewed novels of 1975. The Snow Leopard was the winner of the 1979 National Book Award in the category of Contemporary Thought