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Author : Sir Charles Alfred Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet, Past & Present written by Sir Charles Alfred Bell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Gyatso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231130981
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women in Tibet written by Janet Gyatso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of historical, literary, ethographical essays about the history - Women in traditional Tibet - and present situation of women in Tibet - Modern Tibetan Women, offering data and reflection on certain topics, like the lives of individual women. Based on texts, anthropological data, literature, newspaper articles, fieldwork and oral history.
Author : Charles Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet, Past and Present written by Charles Bell and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 326 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)
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 : Charles Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120604834
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet written by Charles Bell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Charles Alfred Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet, Past & Present written by Sir Charles Alfred Bell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryan J. Cuevas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195306521
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Bryan J. Cuevas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Author : Sir Charles Bell
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ISBN 13 : 9788120837805
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet Past and Present written by Sir Charles Bell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231147163
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Culture of the Book in Tibet written by Kurtis R. Schaeffer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history, allowing for a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.
Author : Sam van Schaik
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154046
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet written by Sam van Schaik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
