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In 1959, a couple of young women from New York find themselves in the Himalayas—an unlikely story of adventure, royal romance, and spiritual awakening that would eventually result in one of the greatest collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in the West. This episode, an experiment in sound and storytelling, explores the incredible convergence of myth and faith, vanished kingdoms and an American princess, and the ancient urge to improve the human experience. You can see the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, assembled by Alice Kandell and newly installed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, here: https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/tibetan-buddhist-shrine-room-the-alice-s-kandell-collection Check out Kandell's photographs of the lost Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, and her friend Hope Cooke, who became its last queen, in the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.30180/
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