Western Tibet

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520072114
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomads of Western Tibet written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this copiously illustrated book is a fascinating account of these remarkable people, of their traditional way of survival. In a world where indigenous peoples and their environments are vanishing at alarming rates, the survival of this way of life represents an unexpected and heartening victory for humanity.

Author : Radmila Moacanin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718437
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism written by Radmila Moacanin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism cuts to the heart of two very different yet remarkably similar traditions. The author touches on many of their major ideas: the collective unconscious and karma, archetypes and deities, the analyst and the spiritual friend, and mandalas. Within Tibetan Buddhism she focuses on tantra and relates its emphasis on spiritual transformation, also a major concern of Jung. This expanded edition includes new material on the integration of the two traditions, and the importance of these paths of the heart in today's unsteady world.

Author : T. Neuhaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137264837
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibet in the Western Imagination written by T. Neuhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures.

Author : August Hermann Francke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Tibet written by August Hermann Francke and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520072107
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomads of Western Tibet written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this copiously illustrated book is a fascinating account of these remarkable people, of their traditional way of survival. In a world where indigenous peoples and their environments are vanishing at alarming rates, the survival of this way of life represents an unexpected and heartening victory for humanity.

Author : Abrahm Lustgarten
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429967188
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Great Train written by Abrahm Lustgarten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical frontier, which promised rich resources and geographic supremacy over South Asia. Through the lives of the Chinese and Tibetans swept up in the project, Fortune magazine writer Abrahm Lustgarten explores the "Wild West" atmosphere of the Chinese economy today. He follows innovative Chinese engineer Zhang Luxin as he makes the train's route over the treacherous mountains and permafrost possible (for now), and the tenacious Tibetan shopkeeper Rinzen, who struggles to hold on to his business in a boomtown that increasingly favors the Han Chinese. As the railway—the highest and steepest in the world—extends to Lhasa, and China's "Go West" campaign delivers waves of rural poor eager to make their fortunes, their lives and communities fundamentally change, sometimes for good, sometimes not. Lustgarten's book is a timely, provocative, and absorbing first-hand account of the Chinese boom and the promise and costs of rapid development on the country's people.

Author : Jeffrey Paine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326260
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reenchantment written by Jeffrey Paine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern sect in the modern world. In a single generation, Tibetan Buddhism developed from the faith of a remote mountain people, associated with bizarre, almost medieval, superstitions, to perhaps the most rapidly growing and celebrity-studded religion in the West. Disaffected with other religious traditions yet searching for meaning, huge numbers of Americans have found their way to the wisdom of Tibetan lamas in exile. Earthy, humorous, commonsensical, and eccentric, these flamboyant teachers—larger-than-life characters like Lama Yeshe and Chogyma Trungpa—proved to be charismatic and gifted ambassadors for their ancient religion. So did two Western women, born in Brooklyn and London's East End, whose homegrown religious intuitions turned out to be identical with the most sophisticated Tibetan teachings, revealing them to be reincarnated lamas. With great flair for both the sublime and the human, Jeffrey Paine narrates in page-turning, richly informative fashion how Tibetan Buddhism—rarefied and sensual, mystical and commonsensical—became the ideal religion for a "post-religious" age. "By far the best of the recent popular books exploring the amazing impact of Tibetan Buddhism. Paine's witty, erudite, flowing prose creates a memorable album of many characters—saints, rascals, and ordinary folks. He glosses over nothing, is ruthlessly critical where it is deserved, but is also secure enough to appreciate the beauty and the power of the 'magic and mystery': the profound practical wisdom and compassion of Tibetan civilization gone global."—Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University "Riveting....Recounts elegantly, yet without fuss, stories of human transformation that consistently incite our capacity for wonder."—Askold Melnyczuk, Boston Globe "Memorable anecdotes, great storytelling and keen observations mark this cogent exploration of the explosive growth of Tibetan Buddhism in the West."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Martin Brauen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789745240513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreamworld Tibet written by Martin Brauen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, engaging work on conceptions of Tibet in Western societies, portraying the misinterpretation, trivialization and political and commercial exploitation of a rich, ancient culture.

Author : Charles Atmore Sherring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Tibet and the British Borderland written by Charles Atmore Sherring and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verslag van een reis door het westen van Tibet en het noorden van Brits-Indië, gemaakt in 1905.

Author : Henry Strachey (Captain.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Geography of Western Tibet written by Henry Strachey (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: