The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West

by Mick Brown

In 1897, an Indian yogi named Bava Lachman Dass exhibited himself at the Westminster Aquarium in London, demonstrating forty-eight yoga positions to a bemused audience. Four years earlier, Hindu philosopher Swami Vivekananda had spoken at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where theosophist Annie Besant rhapsodized about 'his inborn sense of worth' and the 'exquisite beauty' of his spiritual message.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805260197
• ISBN13: 9781805260196
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"