"When I was in my teens and early twenties I read a lot of books about Buddhism, mysticism and similar subjects as I searched, like you do, for some deeper meaning to life than was being peddled by the consumer culture in which I had grown up. One recurring subject in many of these was Tibet, a mysterious country full of priests and monks, secret traditions and spiritual understanding, which was always written about in almost mythical terms as if it were more a legend than a real place somewhere north of India. I was fascinated by this ancient and inaccesible land where initiates could apparantly fly and yogis would be buried alive for days only to be dug up again alive and well after practising ancient techniques of bodily control, and I started to search for more books about the country, it's people and their beliefs."

- Banco De Gaia

Continued at http://www.banco.co.uk/tibet/