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Article: The Himalayas in New York: A New Museum to Expand Your World View.
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- The World and I
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- December 1, 2004
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Fred Stern, currently based in Leonia, New Jersey, is a writer on art and architectural subjects for Artnet and other publications.
Himalaya. The word means house of ice and snow in Sanskrit, the language of this mountainous region.
But the word Himalaya has more than one meaning: A stairway to heaven, was what a great Indian poet once termed it.
Glancing at a map, you'll see that both meanings are true.
The Himalayan Mountains stretch from Pakistan to Kashmir, over Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan, a distance of some 2,000 miles--similar to the distance between the U.S. East Coast and Colorado. There are few cities of any size there. It is a ...