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Buddhism of Tibet
By: Dalai Lama
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This volume consists of four texts that H.H. the Dalai Lama specially wrote or chose for the Western reader.
The Buddhism of Tibet by the Dalai Lama: In this excellent introduction, the the Dalai Lama explains the principle topics and central practices of Buddhism.
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Festivals of Tibet
By: Tsepak Rigzin
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Tsepak's Rigzin's Festivals of Tibet is an invaluable work that captures the true essence of Tibetan festive traditions. Festivals such as losar The Tibetan New Year, sMon Lam - The Great Prayer Festival, Saga Dawa, Buddha's Descent from Tushita, and the Dalai Lama's Birthday are each colourfully described with their own special charm. Tibet's rich and diverse festivals are explored, both in its historical and Buddhist context.
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Folk Culture of Tibet
By: Norbu Chopel
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This book is a general exposition of the miscellaneous Tibetan beliefs and superstitions. It includes chapters on Tibetan superstitions on the birth of a child, man and his clothes, foods and animals. From sections on the significance of the Language of Ravens to the Tibetan traditional method of interpreting dreams. Also included is a translation of Karma Chakme's rare text The Mirror of Omens.
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Folk Tales of Tibet
By: Norbu Chopel
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Folk Tales occupy an important place in Tibetan literature and often enrich the genre with their flavor and originality. But folk tales have remained unwritten and unrecorded. As such these fascinating tales have remained stored in the memories and were transmitted orally from generation to generation.
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Ladakh: Culture at the Crossroads
By: Ahmed and Harris
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This is the first book to combine essays on the history and ongoing production of art in Ladakh and to recognize both Buddhist and Islamic contributions to the cultural environment. Drawing on recent research in the region, Ladakh: Culture at the Crossroads covers subjects ranging from the analysis of key sites duct research in the Himalayas.
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Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century
By: Francoise Pommaret
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The Capital of the Dalai Lama
This is the story of the rise of Lhasa, before 1642 a small town, renowned for its Jokhang temple and its three large 15th century Gelukpa monasteries. The political victory of the Gelukpa changed its destiny and it was the Fifth Dalai Lama who made Lhasa into the centre of the Tibetan world, with an influence reaching into Mongolia and Ladakh. It became a true capital, with prestigious monuments, and the Potala Palace as its focus and symbol.
Based on Tibetan and Western sources, the book provides a fascinating study of the history of Lhasa against the background of the triangular relations Tibetans-Mongols-Manchus. With ample attention for 17th century Lhasa’s historical, political and cultural context, it offers new insights on Lhasa, also, in the last chapter, in its contemporary Chinese framework.
Readership: All those interested in Asian studies and the history and culture of Tibet as well as Tibetologists and art historians.
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Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.
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Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating
eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri
(1684–1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The Italian missionary was most
notably the first European to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan
scholars and monks—and from a profound study of its primary texts.
while there, Desideri was an eyewitness to some of the most tumultuous
events in Tibet’s history, of which he left us a vivid and dramatic
account.
Desideri explores key Buddhist concepts including emptiness and rebirth,
together with their philosophical and ethical implications, with
startling detail and sophistication. This book also includes an
introduction situating the work in the context of Desideri’s life and
the intellectual and religious milieu of eighteenth-century Catholicism.
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Secret Tibet
By: Maraini, Fosco
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Fosco Maraini visited Tibet in 1937 and again in 1948. In 1951 he published Secret Tibet , an account that was a synthesis of the two journeys. After an interval of close on 50 years he returned to the text to revise, augment and update it in the light of the bruising historical realities of the Chinese occupation and the destruction of much of Tibet's cultural heritage, particularly during the violence of the "Cultural Revolution".
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State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth
By: Andrew Martin Fischer
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The most pressing economic challenges facing the Tibetan areas of western China relate to the marginalization of the majority of Tibetans from rapid state-led growth. The urban-rural divide plays an important role in this polarized dynamic but alone only partially explains differences with other Chinese regions, all of which generally exhibit strong spatial inequalities. This book therefore focuses on several further factors that determine the ethnically exclusionary character of current peripheral growth in the Tibetan areas. These include processes of urbanization, immigration, employment, and education as key factors underlying structural economic change.
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Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics
By: Elliot Sperling
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The status of Tibet has been at the core of the Tibet-China conflict for all parties drawn into it over the past century. China maintains that Tibet is an integral part of China, while Tibetans maintain that Tibet has historically been an independent country. In reality the conflict over Tibet's status has been a conflict over history. When Chinese writers and political figures assert that Tibet is a part of China, they do so on the basis of history. The People's Republic of China has pointedly accused the Dalai Lama of duplicity, stating that his unwillingness to recognize that Tibet has been an integral part of China for centuries renders his attempts to compromise on the Tibet issue unacceptable. The centrality of history in the question of Tibet's status could not be made clearer. This paper is a guide to the historical arguments made by the primary parties to the Tibet-China conflict. It draws on the key assertions about the issue as they have been framed in Chinese and Tibetan to examine the extent to which positions on the Tibet issue that are thought to reflect centuries of popular consensus are actually very recent constructions, often at variance with the history on which they claim to be based.
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Tibetan Civilization
By: R. A. Stein
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This is the first appearance in English of R. A. Stein’s now classic work.. The work demonstrates Stein’s mastery of the field of Tibetan studies and the depth of his knowledge of the surrounding cultures. Drawing as far as possible on Chinese and Tibetan sources as well as Western scholarship, Stein gives us an overall view of the civilization and relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia. The account is rich in detail and covers both ancient and modern Tibet...The book is written for the non-specialist educated reader as well as the scholar and is highly recommended to all.” ~Asian Forum
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WLabrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958
By: Paul Nietupski
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Laywomen and Almswomen
The book is an attempt to present the position of the laywomen and the almswomen in historical focus. Here, for the first time, we read of women of sincere aspirations and earnest will, seeking the more, the better, in life.
For the study of the laywomen the author has exploited the material found in the Canonical literature, the Commentaries thereon, the Jatakas and the Milindapanha, while most of the material for the account of the almswomen is gathered from the Vinayapitaka (especially the Bhikkhuni Khandhaka and the Bhikkhuni-Vibhanga), the Therigatha and the Commentaries. References scattered throughout Pali literature have also contributed to this account.
The book is divided into two parts bound in one Vol. Part I (Chs. 1-5) depicts the laywomen as the mother, daughter, wife, widow and worker. Part II (Chs. 1-5) deals with the almswoman, her admission into the order, the eight chief rules, Therigatha, life in the order, while chs. 4 and 5 of this part are further divided into parts or sections.
The study reveals the spiritual experiences of some of the lay-and almswomen. It throws light on the various social conditions prevailing during the life-time of Buddha and shortly after.
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