Seven Years In Tibet

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874772176

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Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Pdf

In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet. Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and imprisoned by British authorities. After several attempts, he escaped and crossed the rugged, frozen Himalayas, surviving by duping government officials and depending on the generosity of villagers for food and shelter.Harrer finally reached his ultimate destination-the Forbidden City of Lhasa-without money, or permission to be in Tibet. But Tibetan hospitality and his own curious appearance worked in Harrer's favor, allowing him unprecedented acceptance among the upper classes. His intelligence and European ways also intrigued the young Dalai Lama, and Harrer soon became His Holiness's tutor and trusted confidant. When the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, Harrer and the Dalai Lama fled the country together.This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. It is a must-read for lovers of travel, adventure, history, and culture. A motion picture, under the direction of Jean-Jacques Annaud, will feature Brad Pitt in the lead role of Heinrich Harrer.

Author : Peter Aufschnaiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114354470

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Peter Aufschnaiter's Eight Years in Tibet by Peter Aufschnaiter Pdf

This is a highly illustrated, personal account of Peter Aufschnaiter's eight-year sojourn in Tibet, characterized by his empathy for and understanding of Tibetan culture and enriched by his photographs and sketches. The text is a sensitive record of the Tibetans and their way of life and ends of the eve of the Chinese invasion that was to wreak such irreversible damage to this unique culture.

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874778883

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Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Pdf

Recounts how the author an Austrian, escaped from the English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.

Author : Thubten Jigme Norbu,Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047787778

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Tibet Is My Country by Thubten Jigme Norbu,Heinrich Harrer Pdf

The moving biography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, an elder brother of the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Thubten Norbu recalls the details of his life: his childhood, his recognition as a reincarnated lama, the story of his brother, and the exile of thousands of Tibetans from their homeland. Thubten Norbu told his story (it was actually taped) to Heinrich Harrer who spent Seven Years in Tibet (Harrer's account appeared in 1954) and was the tutor to the Dalai Lama.

Author : Ekai Kawaguchi
Publisher : anboco
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736417090

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Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi Pdf

I was lately reading the Holy Text of the Saḍḍharma-Puṇdarīka (the Aphorisms of the White Lotus of the Wonderful or True Law) in a Samskṛṭ manuscript under a Boḍhi-tree near Mṛga-Ḍāva (Sāranāṭh), Benares. Here our Blessed Lord Buḍḍha Shākya-Muni taught His Holy Ḍharma just after the accomplishment of His Buḍḍhahood at Buḍḍhagayā. Whilst doing so, I was reminded of the time, eighteen years ago, when I had read the same text in Chinese at a great Monastery named Ohbakusang at Kyoto in Japan, a reading which determined me to undertake a visit to Tibet. It was in March, 1891, that I gave up the Rectorship of the Monastery of Gohyakurakan in Tokyo, and left for Kyoto, where I remained living as a hermit for about three years, totally absorbed in the study of a large collection of Buḍḍhist books in the Chinese language. My object in doing so was to fulfil a long-felt desire to translate the texts into Japanese in an easy style from the difficult and unintelligible Chinese. But I afterwards found that it was not a wise thing to rely upon the Chinese texts alone, without comparing them with Tibetan translations as well as with the original Samskṛṭ texts which are contained in Mahāyāna Buḍḍhism. The Buḍḍhist Samskṛṭ texts were to be found in Tibet and Nepāl. Of course, many of them had been discovered by European Orientalists in Nepāl and a few in other parts of India and Japan. But those texts had not yet been found which included the most important manuscripts of which Buḍḍhist scholars were in great want. Then again, the Tibetan texts were famous for being[vi] more accurate translations than the Chinese. Now I do not say that the Tibetan translations are superior to the Chinese. As literal translations, I think that they are superior; but, for their general meaning, the Chinese are far better than the Tibetan.

Author : John Kenneth Knaus
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352341

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Beyond Shangri-La by John Kenneth Knaus Pdf

Beyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the presence of the current Dalai Lama and his direction of their country. In 1958, John Kenneth Knaus volunteered to serve in a major CIA program to support the Tibetans. For the next seven years, as an operations officer working from India, from Colorado, and from Washington, D.C., he cooperated with the Tibetan rebels as they utilized American assistance to contest Chinese domination and to attain international recognition as an independent entity. Since the late 1950s, the rugged resolve of the Dalai Lama and his people and the growing respect for their efforts to free their homeland from Chinese occupation have made Tibet's political and cultural status a pressing issue in international affairs. So has the realization by nations, including the United States, that their geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007347575

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The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer Pdf

A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history.

Author : Richard Starks,Miriam Murcutt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780762761906

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Lost in Tibet by Richard Starks,Miriam Murcutt Pdf

Author : Heinrich Harrer
Publisher : London R. Hart-Davis 1953.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0006550924

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Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer Pdf

A film tie-in edition to the new film starring Brad Pitt and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud of one of the greatest and most enduring travel accounts of the twentieth century.

Author : Orville Schell
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805043829

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Virtual Tibet by Orville Schell Pdf

What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real celebrity, the Dalai Lama, so abidingly fascinating to the West? In Virtual Tibet, Orville Schell, one of the preeminent experts on modern China and Tibet, undertakes a strange and wondrous odyssey into our Tibetan fantasies. He recounts the spellbinding adventures of the Western explorers and spiritualists who for centuries were bent on reaching forbidden Tibet and the holy city of Lhasa. Simultaneously, Schell embarks on a parallel present-day journey from Beastie Boys' "Free Tibet" concerts to a re-creation of Lhasa in the high Argentine Andes -- the extravagant set of Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt. At once comic and insightful, Virtual Tibet takes us beyond the fantasies to the reality of an isolated country that has repeatedly won the West's adoration, and paid the price for believing that our allegiance is profound.

Author : Ian Baker
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0500252432

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The Heart of the World by Ian Baker Pdf

The legend of Shangri-La emerged from the Tibetan Buddhist belief in beyul, or hidden lands. Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of these mythical sanctuaries lies at the eastern edge of the Himalayas, veiled by a colossal waterfall at the heart of the forbidding Tsangpo gorge. After years of research and investigation, Buddhist scholar and world-class climber Ian Baker and his team made worldwide news by reaching the bottom of the Tsangpo gorge and finding a magnificent 108-foot-high waterfall - the legendary grail of both Western explorers and Tibetan seekers. The Heart of the World recounts one of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in recent memory - an extraordinary journey into one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on earth, a meditation on our place in nature, and a pilgrimage to the heart of Tibetan Buddhism.

Author : Martin Brauen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : 9745240516

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Dreamworld Tibet by Martin Brauen Pdf

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 : Brian J. Robb
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859652882

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Brad Pitt by Brian J. Robb Pdf

This updated glimpse into the life and career of Brad Pitt offers additional photos and 32 new pages of biographical information. 100 photos, some in color.

Author : Tenzin Dickie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944869514

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Old Demons, New Deities by Tenzin Dickie Pdf

The first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the West, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best Tibetan writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, who write in Tibetan, English and Chinese. Modern Tibetan literature is just under forty years old: its birth dates to 1980, when the first Tibetan language journal was published in Lhasa. Since then, short stories have become one of the primary modern Tibetan art forms. Through these sometimes absurd, sometimes strange, and always moving stories, the English-reading audience gets an authentic look at the lives of ordinary, secular, modern Tibetans navigating the space between tradition and modernity, occupation and exile, the personal and the national. The setting may be the Himalayas, an Indian railway, or a New York City brothel, but the insights into an ancient culture and the lives and concerns of a modern people are real, and powerful. For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.

Author : Jean-Jacques Annaud,Becky Johnston,Laurence B. Chollet
Publisher : Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Seven years in Tibet (Motion picture)
ISBN : 1557043426

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The Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud,Becky Johnston,Laurence B. Chollet Pdf

To coincide with the October film from Mandalay/TriStar, this a beautiful hardcover book features color photos, the script, and story behind the epic movie based on the classic memoir of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis. 100 photos & drawings.