A Portrait Of Lost Tibet

Author : Rosemary Jones Tung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520204614
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Lost Tibet written by Rosemary Jones Tung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they moved to reestablish their "traditional" borders and in 1959 annexed Tibet. Most monasteries were closed, nomads were moved onto communes, the nobility were stripped of privileges, forests were cut, roads were paved, military airfields were constructed, and Tibet's communication with the outside world was cut off. A Portrait of Lost Tibet provides rare documentary photographs of traditional Tibetan life as it had been lived for countless generations before the radical disruption effected by the Chinese takeover. Rosemary Jones Tung's text describes the culture Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan found during their ten-month trek across Tibet in 1942. Tung has selected 131 photographs from the two thousand taken during their expedition. When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they moved to reestablish their "traditional" borders and in 1959 annexed Tibet. Most monasteries were closed, nomads were moved onto communes, the nobility were stripped of privileges, forests were cut, roads were paved, military airfields were constructed, and Tibet's communication with the outside world was cut off. A Portrait of Lost Tibet provides rare documentary photographs of traditional Tibetan life as it had been lived for countless generations before the radical disruption effected by the Chinese takeover. Rosemary Jones Tung's text describes the culture Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan found during their ten-month trek across Tibet in 1942. Tung has selected 131 photographs from the two thousand taken during their expedition.

Author : R. J. Tung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785525301
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Lost Tibet written by R. J. Tung and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick French
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307548066
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibet, Tibet written by Patrick French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history, agitated for its freedom, and risked arrest to travel through its remote interior. His love and knowledge inform every page of this learned, literate, and impassioned book. Talking with nomads and Buddhist nuns, exiles and collaborators, French portrays a nation demoralized by a half-century of Chinese occupation and forced to depend on the patronage of Western dilettantes. He demolishes many of the myths accruing to Tibet–including those centering around the radiant figure of the Dalai Lama. Combining the best of history, travel writing, and memoir, Tibet, Tibet is a work of extraordinary power and insight.

Author : Richard Starks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762761903
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Tibet written by Richard Starks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Starks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762789301
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Tibet written by Richard Starks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in a violent storm and blown far off their intended course, five American airmen--flying the dangerous Himalayan supply route known as "The Hump"--were forced to bail out just seconds before their plane ran out of fuel. To their astonishment, they found they had landed in the heart of Tibet. There they had to confront what, to them, seemed a bizarre--even alien--people. At the same time, they had to extricate themselves from the political turmoil that even then was raging around Tibet's right to be independent from China. Now back in print, Lost in Tibet is an extraordinary story of high adventure that sheds light on the remarkable Tibetan people, just at the moment when they were coming to terms with a hostile outside world.

Author : Matthew T. Kapstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118725379
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tibetans written by Matthew T. Kapstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history. A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history. Responds to current interest in Tibet due to continuing publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest in Tibetan Buddhism. Explains recent events within the context of Tibetan history. Situates Tibet in relation to other Asian civilizations through the ages. Draws on the most recent scholarly and archaeological research. Introduces Tibetan culture – particularly social institutions, religious and political traditions, the arts and medical lore. An epilogue considers the fragile position of Tibetan civilization in the modern world.

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Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Lhasa written by and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War Two and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.

Author : Thierry Dodin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711912
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Tibet written by Thierry Dodin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land with an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. How and why did our perception change? How accurate are our modern conceptions of Tibet? Imagining Tibet is a collection of essays that reveal these Western conceptions. Providing an historical background to the West's ever-changing relationship with Tibet, Donald Lopez, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jamyang Norbu, and other noted scholars explore a variety of topics - from Western perceptions of Tibetan approaches to violence, monastic life, and life as a nation in exile, to representations of Tibet in Western literature, art, environmentalism, and the New Age movement.

Author : Michel Peissel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312309534
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibet written by Michel Peissel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate homage to Tibet in words and pictures by one of the last great explorers who brings the geographical, spiritual, and intellectual heart of the country to life. 250 photos.

Author : Antonio Attisani
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869764249
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The theatre of Tibet written by Antonio Attisani and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2024-04-05T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he theatrical culture of Tibet is probably the last to remain virtually unknown to the outside world, and to the West in particular. As well as describing the current situation of studies on Tibetan theatre, the current volume also provides an essay on imagination and how it is concretely manifested by the Tibetan people and their actors. Recent decades have seen radical change for Tibetan theatre, ache lhamo, now performed by a diaspora for whom a declining artistic and technical change derives from an uncertain politics concerning secular and popular culture, as well as the ongoing cultural genocide caused by China’s subjection of Tibet.