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Author : Ippolito Desideri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415346789
In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the eatural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism.
Author : Thomas Laird
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802143273
In a series of candid interviews with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader speaks out about the land, people, culture, history, traditions, and spirituality of Tibet, discussing the role played by religion and spirituality in the nation's history, the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in 1959, his personal religious beliefs, and his lifelong study of Buddhism. Reprint.
Author : Patrick French
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307548061
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 : Arjia Rinpoche
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781605291628
On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precocious toddler their white handloomed scarves and congratulations for having given birth to a holy child—and future spiritual leader. Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at the age of two and fled Tibet 46 years later. In his gripping memoir, Rinpoche relates the story of having been abandoned in his monastery as a young boy after witnessing the torture and arrest of his monastery family. In the years to come, Rinpoche survived under harsh Chinese rule, as he was forced into hard labor and endured continual public humiliation as part of Mao's Communist "reeducation." By turns moving, suspenseful, historical, and spiritual, Rinpoche's unique experiences provide a rare window into a tumultuous period of Chinese history and offer readers an uncommon glimpse inside a Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
Author : Ippolito Desideri
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780861719303
Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks - and from a profound study of its primary texts. while there, Desideri was an eyewitness to some of the most tumultuous events in Tibet's history, of which he left us a vivid and dramatic account. Desideri explores key Buddhist concepts including emptiness and rebirth, together with their philosophical and ethical implications, with startling detail and sophistication. This book also includes an introduction situating the work in the context of Desideri's life and the intellectual and religious milieu of eighteenth-century Catholicism.
Author : Filippo De Filippi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN : OCLC:154603443
Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231147163
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 : Samuel Turner
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 8120606876
The mountains of the kingdom of Bhutan form a part of the Himalayan range. In the year 1772, without provocation, the army of Bhutan invaded the province of Cooch Behar, which shares its borders with Bengal. Alarmed by this incursion, the council of Bengal sent a deputation to deal with the occupying force. The troops of Bhutan were no match for the trained and well-equipped army of Bengal. The King of Bhutan, alarmed and defeated, sent an embassy to the Tesoo Lama to sue for peace by mediation. The Tesoo Lama was, at that time, the regent of Tibet and the guardian of the Dalai Lama, who was still a minor. The Tesoo Lama, acting on the prayers of Bhutan which was a dependency of Tibet sent a deputation to Calcutta, with a telegram addressed to the Governor Warren Hastings in 1774. The governor readily took this opportunity to extend British influence over this little-known quarter of the world. George Boyle was the man chosen to represent the British to carry an answer, and presents, back to the Lama. A man of keen observation and intellect, George Boyle s narrative of this mission is the subject of this book.
Author : Madame Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486119441
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Author : Sandy Johnson
Publisher : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037789511
"A historically isolated people, the Tibetans have now indeed come to the land of the red man, and nearly every other country on earth. When the Chinese invaded the country in 1959 and proceeded to destroy the ancient-wisdom culture as well as nearly a sixth of the population, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans fled to India and parts west. In the 1980s, the prophecy was fulfilled, and the Dalai Lama, exiled leader of Tibet, met with Hopi and other American Indian elders in an effort to reunite the brothers." "Tibet's spiritual elders are dying off, and it is with them that so many of the secrets of survival lie. They are the ones who can find by touching someone's wrist what our medicine cannot detect; they saw the empty spaces of the atom before science considered the concept of subatomic particles; they know how to realign even severe emotional imbalances without drugs or therapy; they know what plants heal us (they have catalogued more than two thousand) and how to save them from destruction; they predicted the demise of their own country at the hands of the Chinese; they saw the coming of AIDS almost ten centuries ago. These people are dying off, and with them, the wisdom we need to make it through the next century and beyond." "After the Chinese occupation of their country, many Tibetan elders were killed in reeducation camps. Many survived, however, to escape what has now become a brutally oppressive environment. Sandy Johnson traveled around the world gathering the life stories and teachings of Tibetan doctors, the state oracle, the previous Dalai Lama's tailor, the great women masters - the entire range of the culture. An astrologer offers to produce Sandy's chart, including the date of her death; a stone carver shows her the rocks with prayers painted on them that he places in the river at the end of every day so that the water may carry blessings to everything it touches; Johnson meets a woman of indeterminate age who lives her life in a cave praying that people might be less distracted by material things and learn to care for each other again. At the same time, Johnson herself is on a spiritual quest, and interwoven with the stories of the elders comes her own physical healing as well as a long-awaited reconciliation with her family. The book is filled with predictions made by the Tibetan elders about the course of Johnson's life - most of which have already come true."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064464971
" A classic travel narrative of the author's journeys in Tibet. Many of the plates are from drawings by Landor. He travelled with two native porters into then unknown lands of the high Himalayas and places never before reached by Europeans. His account is skillfully detailed and includes geographical discoveries"--Abebooks.com.
Author : Jetsun Pema
Publisher : Element Books, Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040617311
Jetsun Pema, the Dalai Lama's younger sister, offers a rare and poignant account of life in Tibet before the Chinese occupation--a world that is lost forever. She presents her story from her childhood, growing up in pre-invasion Tibet, to her work today as a minister of the Tibetan government. These courageous and moving words are an enduring testament to the indomitability of the human spirit. photo insert.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798129107779
Author : Perceval Landon
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN : 8120611454
An Account Of Lhasa And Of The Country And People Of Central Tibet; And Of The Mission Sent There By The English Government In The Year 1903-1904 As A Special Correspondent Of The `Times`.
Author : Tsering Woeser
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784781552
Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire Since the 2008 uprising, nearly 150 Tibetan monks have set fire to themselves in protest at the Chinese occupation of their country. Most have died from their injuries. Author Tsering Woeser is a prominent voice of the Tibetan movement, and one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese. Her stirring acts of resistance have led to her house arrest, where she remains under close surveillance to this day. Tibet On Fire is her account of the oppression Tibetans face and the ideals driving those who resist, both the self-immolators and other Tibetans like herself. With a cover image designed by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, Tibet on Fire is angry and cogent: a clarion call for the world to take action.
