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Tibet

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Author : Sam van Schaik
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-28

Tibet written by Sam van Schaik and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-28 with History categories.

Presents a comprehensive history of the country, from its beginnings in the seventh century, to its rise as a Buddhist empire in medieval times, to its conquest by China in 1950, and subsequent rule by the Chinese.

The People Of Tibet

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Author : Sir Charles Alfred Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

The People Of Tibet written by Sir Charles Alfred Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.

The Tibet Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

The Tibet Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Tibet (China) categories.

Among Tibetan Texts

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Author : E. Gene Smith
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-06-15

Among Tibetan Texts written by E. Gene Smith and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-15 with History categories.

For three decades, E. Gene Smith ran the Library of Congress's Tibetan Text Publication Project of the United States Public Law 480 (PL480) - an effort to salvage and reprint the Tibetan literature that had been collected by the exile community or by members of the Bhotia communities of Sikkim, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. Smith wrote prefaces to these reprinted books to help clarify and contextualize the particular Tibetan texts: the prefaces served as rough orientations to a poorly understood body of foreign literature. Originally produced in print quantities of twenty, these prefaces quickly became legendary, and soon photocopied collections were handed from scholar to scholar, achieving an almost cult status. These essays are collected here for the first time. The impact of Smith's research on the academic study of Tibetan literature has been tremendous, both for his remarkable ability to synthesize diverse materials into coherent accounts of Tibetan literature, history, and religious thought, and for the exemplary critical scholarship he brought to this field.

China S Tibet Policy

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Author : Dawa Norbu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2001-09-27

China S Tibet Policy written by Dawa Norbu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Social Science categories.

This major study analyses the traditional modes of Sino-Tibetan relations in order to unearth general patterns beyond partisan points of view. It sheds light on contemporary issues in the Sino-Tibetan dialogue, and discerns possible future structures for conflict resolution in occupied Tibet. With its economic reforms, China is changing and will ch

Authenticating Tibet

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Author : Anne-Marie Blondeau
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-04-08

Authenticating Tibet written by Anne-Marie Blondeau and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-08 with History categories.

Since 1959, Tibet has been at the centre of controversy, after China's 'peaceful liberation' of the Land of Snows led to the Lhasa uprising and the Dalai Lama's escape to India. This work brings together responses to a booklet published by the Chinese government in 1989, which sought to counter criticism of their occupation of Tibet.

Trekking In Tibet

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Author : Gary McCue
language : en
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Release Date : 1991

Trekking In Tibet written by Gary McCue and has been published by Mountaineers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Sports & Recreation categories.

Tibet And Its History

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Author : Hugh Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1984

Tibet And Its History written by Hugh Richardson and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.

My Tibet Text By His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Of Tibet

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Author : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995

My Tibet Text By His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Of Tibet written by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

One of the world's spiritual leaders and a renowned wilderness photographer combine their vision of Tibet in this stunningly beautiful book. Essays by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama appear with Galen Rowell's dramatic images in a moving presentation of the splendors of Tibet's revered but threatened heritage. When Chinese communist troops invaded Tibet in 1950, the author was fifteen years old and the spiritual and temporal ruler of a nation the size of western Europe. Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, appealed to the United Nations for help and then fled across the Himalaya in winter to a border town, where he anxiously awaited political aid that never came. Like the mythical kingdom of Shangri-La, Tibet had sought isolation from the rest of the world. Diplomatic relations and foreign visitors had been shunned, and few people in the West knew what cultural and natural treasures lay threatened there. In the years that followed, the Dalai Lama struggled to maintain peace in Tibet and to protect his people's ways, but in 1959 he was forced to flee to India, where he remains today. There he has established a government in exile in Dharamsala that has endeavored to preserve Tibetan culture while preparing for a peaceful return to a free Tibet. As the Chinese cautiously opened select Tibetan doors to visitors in the 1980s, a sickening realization stole over the rest of the world: Tibet had been ravaged by the Chinese occupation. All but a dozen of Tibet's six thousand monasteries had been destroyed. Much of the once-bountiful wildlife had disappeared. A sixth of the population had perished. The picture seemed so bleak that many wondered whether there was anything worth saving in this wounded land. The Dalai Lama's heartening answer and Galen Rowell's magnificent photographs leave no doubt that the mystery and enchantment of Tibet, though seriously endangered, are still alive. To Tibetans the Dalai Lama is an incarnation of the Buddha of compassion. He has spent the last thirty years tirelessly advocating nonviolence and compassion to all living things as the answer to Tibet's plight. "My religion is simple," he says, "my religion is kindness." My Tibet movingly elaborates this message: here the Dalai Lama offers his views on how world peace, happiness, and environmental responsibility are inextricably linked. He explains the meaning of pilgrimage for Tibetan Buddhists and gives an engaging account of his early life in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. In addition, he reveals many sides to his nature-compassion, profound faith, common sense, generosity, a playful sense of humor-in personal reflections matched here to 108 photographs of the land he hasn't seen since 1959. Together the breathtaking photographs, which express Rowell's own commitment to the natural world, and the Dalai Lama's observations help preserve the enduring meaning of Tibet's culture, religion, and natural heritage.

Buddhism In Contemporary Tibet

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Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998

Buddhism In Contemporary Tibet written by Melvyn C. Goldstein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book. Four leading specialists in Tibetan anthropology and religion conducted case studies in the Tibet autonomous region and among the Tibetans of Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. There they observed the revival of the Buddhist heritage in monastic communities and among laypersons at popular pilgrimages and festivals. Demonstrating how that revival must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a complex process of social, political, and economic adaptation. Buddhism has long been the main source of Tibetans' pride in their culture and country. These essays reveal the vibrancy of that ancient religion in contemporary Tibet and also the problems that religion and Tibetan culture in general are facing in a radically altered world.