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The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise
by Ian Baker  Synopsis The Heart of the World recounts an extraordinary journey into one of the most inaccessible places on earth, and a pilgrimage to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of beyul, or mystical sanctuaries, lies at the...
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer Synopsis "Seven Years in Tibet" is the extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of...
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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...
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Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
by Anne Marie Blondeau Publisher Comments The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's peaceful liberation of the land of snows led to the...
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
by Xinran Publisher Comments It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the...
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments For nineteenth-century adventures, Tibet was the prize destination, and Lhasa, its capital situated nearly three miles above sea level, was the grandest trophy of all. The lure of this mysterious land, and its strategic importance, made it inevitable...
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Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule
by Tubten Khetsun Publisher Comments Born in 1941, Tubten Khtsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner in the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khtsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace...
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In Exile from the Land of Snows Ri
by John Avedon Publisher Comments Now considered a classic, this is an eloquent and compellingly told account of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet after its conquest by China....
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Dreamworld Tibet: Western Illusions
by Martin Brauen Synopsis In this lively and visually engaging work on Western conceptions of Tibet, anthropologist Martin Brauen paints a vivid portrait of misinterpretation, trivialization, and political and commercial exploitation of a rich and ancient culture. Starting with...
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Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows
by Lee Feigon Synopsis An authoritative view of the history and culture of Tibet at a time when this ancient land risks losing its identity under Chinese rule. An impeccably researched, spirited history of the forces that shaped today's Tibet, right down to the way tea is...
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Sky Burial
by Blake Kerr Synopsis Riveting firsthand account by a U.S. doctor of the recent turmoil in Tibet....
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Tibetan Revolutionary : Political Life and Times of Bapa PHNtso Wangye (04 Edition)
by Melvyn C. Goldstein Publisher Comments This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phuntso Wangye (Phunwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phunwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He...
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The last Barbarians :the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet
by Michel Peissel Book News Annotation Tibetan ethnology expert Peissel (Ph.D., Sorbonne) recounts his 1994 adventure as he succeeded in that elusive goal of a century of explorers to forbidden, miles high Tibet: finding the source of the Mekong River. An added bonus in this land of...
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The Spirit of Tibet
by Alison Wright Publisher Comments This visually stunning, full-color portrait of Tibetan life in exile displays the spirit of Tibetan refugees living in the beautifil mountain settings of northern India and shows how they have preserved the best of their unique culture and identity....
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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...
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Women in Tibet: Past and Present
by Janet Gyatso Synopsis This volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet: queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and...
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Lhasa: Streets with Memories
by Robert Barnett Publisher Comments Foreign observers, western and eastern have frequently idealized the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, describing it as a peaceful, timeless city defined by Buddhist traditions and a contented population, while others have seen it as foul-smelling, oppressive...
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Tibet: An Inner Journey
by Matthieu Ricard Publisher Comments Matthieu Ricard has lived in Nepal for over thirty years. During this time he has forged close ties with some of Buddhism's greatest spiritual masters, from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, for whom he is the official French...
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
by Xinran Publisher Comments It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met...
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The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival
by Adhe Tapontsang Publisher Comments 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 fortunate enough to encounter this...
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