A Hare-Marked Moon: From Bhutan to Yorkshire: The Story of an English Stupa - Hardcover

David Lascelles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178352930X ISBN 13: 9781783529308

Publisher: Unbound, 2021

Synopsis

In the spring of 2004, David Lascelles invited a group of monks from Bhutan to build a stupa in the gardens of Harewood House in Yorkshire. It was a step into the unknown for the Bhutanese. They didn t speak any English, had never travelled outside their own culture, had never flown in an airplane or seen the ocean.

Theirs was one kind of journey. But the project was also another kind of voyage for David: an attempt to reconcile a deep interest in Buddhism with the 250 years that his family has lived at Harewood, the country house and estate originally built on money derived from the slave trade that he has loved, rejected, tried to make sense of and been haunted by all his life. In Buddhist thought, stupas are believed to harmonise an environment by subduing the chaos at work there. Would this stupa have a similar effect, quelling the chaotic forces of Harewood's past and harmonising the contradictions of its present?

A Hare-Marked Moon tells the story behind the extraordinary meeting of cultures that resulted in the Harewood Stupa, interspersed with accounts of David s travels in the Himalayas which delve into the rich and turbulent history of the region, and the beliefs that have shaped it. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Unbound
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178352930X
• ISBN 13: 9781783529308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 358