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Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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Tibet: Reflections From the Wheel of Life by Thomas L. Kelly Book News Annotation A beautifully illustrated coffee table book that should go well beyond the coffee table. Beginning with a foreword written by the Dalai Lama, the volume provides an intimate presentation of the Tibetan people through photographs and words. Annotation... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Xue Publisher Comments In 2002 Xinran’s Good Women of China became an international bestseller, revealing startling new truths about Chinese life to the West. Now she returns with an epic story of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Buddha's Warriors by Mikel Dunham Publisher Comments Buddha's Warriors is the first book that brings to life Tibet before the Chinese communist invasions and depicts the transition of peaceful monks to warriors with the help of the CIA. Tibet in the last sixty years has been so much mystified and... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa by Mick Brown Publisher Comments In January 2000, two Ambassador taxis twisted their way up the narrow road leading towards Dharamsala in the Himalayan foothills of northern India - the home-in-exile of the Dalai Lama. In one taxi was a fourteen-year-old boy, the 17th Karmapa, one of... (read more) List Price $11.70 Your price: $11.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival by Adhe Tapontsang Publisher Comments The story of a woman's, and her country's, spiritual struggle for survival.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet by Abrahm Lustgarten Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Tibetan Portrait by Phil Borges Synopsis Offer sa unique picture of Tibetan culture.... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Born in Tibet by Chögyam Trungpa Publisher Comments Chögyam Trungpa—meditation master, scholar, and artist—was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kangchenjunga: Guardian of the Eastern Himalaya by Tim Hauf Publisher Comments Kangchenjunga is one of the most mysterious mountains in the world. It wasn't scaled until 1955, two years after Everest, and even then the party of British mountaineers who climbed it stopped short of the summit in deference to the wishes of the chogyal... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Voice That Remembers : a Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival (97 Edition) by Ama Adhe Synopsis Ama Adhe's spirit soars over national and cultural boundaries. Her tenacious struggle to remain human in the face of inhuman torture and deprivation while imprisoned by the Chinese for 27 years inspires any reader lucky enough to encounter this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Search for the Panchen Lama by Isabel Hilton Synopsis The inside story of a seven-year-old Tibetan boy, believed to be the 11th incarnation of Buddhist spiritual leader Panchen Lama, who was taken from his home by Chinese authorities in 1995, and hasn't been seen since.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China by Charlene E Makley Publisher Comments This wide-ranging, keenly observed study provides a groundbreaking account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing from thirteen years of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope by John B. ROBERTS Publisher Comments Freeing Tibet is the incredible, heroic story of Tibet's arduous struggle to keep freedom alive. Timely, impeccably researched and including a 16-page black&white photo insert, it will change the way we understand Tibet.In March of 1959, a 23-year-old... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise by Ian Baker Publisher Comments The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place by Ian Baker Publisher Comments The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows by Lee Feigon Publisher Comments This authoritative view of the history and culture of Tibet comes at a time when this ancient land is in danger of losing its identity and culture under Chinese rule. In a compact narrative account, Lee Feigon describes Tibet's long and independent... (read more) List Price $17.90 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa by Thomas Laird Synopsis Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949-1950 American undercover expedition led by America's first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan -- a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet's independence months before China invaded. Thomas... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell From Powells.com In 1953, a young Orville Schell happened upon a copy of Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer's classic account of living in Tibet during the second world war. He was hooked: "Harrer's book offered a fabulous escapist tale of an isolated, ancient... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Education in Tibet: Policy and Practice Since 1950 (Politics in Contemporary Asia Series) by Catriona Bass Publisher Comments This is the first book in English, or any other Western language, to give a comprehensive overview of education provision and policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) during the half century since China asserted control over the region. The author... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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