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A Home In Tibet
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Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-09-01
A Home In Tibet written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother’s ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter’s haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.
Coming Home To Tibet
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Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2016-07-12
Coming Home To Tibet written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother and a homeland that she knew little about. Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.
The House Tibet
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Author : Georgia Savage
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
Release Date : 1992
The House Tibet written by Georgia Savage and has been published by Penguin Mass Market this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
American issue of a novel first published in Australia in 1989. A young girl raped by her father runs away with her autistic brother, joins up with a group of streetwise kids, and eventually finds sanctuary in the House Tibet. By the author of 'The Estuary'.
The Culture Of The Book In Tibet
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Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009
The Culture Of The Book In Tibet written by Kurtis R. Schaeffer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
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.
Tibet
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Author : Thuten Kesang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Tibet written by Thuten Kesang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Immigrants categories.
Thuten Kesang QSM, was born and raised in the independent country of Tibet. After spending his early years in the Sera Monastery in Lhasa, he was taken by his father across the border into India for his education, being enrolled at Dr Graham's Homes in Kalimpong, Northern India. A s a result of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Thuten discovered that he had become an orphan - a refugee in India - but, through the generosity of a benefactor, he was able to continue his education at Homes, repaying the kindness shown to him by completing his studies successfully. After working hard to finish an extensive apprenticeship for printing, he migrated to New Zealand and began a new chapter in his life journey. 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Thuten's arrival in New Zealand and also the 46th anniversary of his marriage to Gwen which has blessed them with two happily married daughters and three grandchildren"--Back cover.
The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying
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Author : Sogyal Rinpoche
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29
The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying written by Sogyal Rinpoche and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation, but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment and so become 'servants of peace'.
Tibet Tibet
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Author : Patrick French
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-09-09
Tibet Tibet written by Patrick French and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with Travel categories.
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.
The Book Of Tibetan Elders
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Author : Sandy Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Release Date : 1996
The Book Of Tibetan Elders written by Sandy Johnson and has been published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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
Eat The Buddha
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Author : Barbara Demick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Eat The Buddha written by Barbara Demick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Social Science categories.
A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy “A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”—The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Economist • Outside • Foreign Affairs Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese Communists encountered one another. In the 1930s, Mao Zedong’s Red Army fled into the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the soldiers reached Ngaba, they were so hungry that they looted monasteries and ate religious statues made of flour and butter—to Tibetans, it was as if they were eating the Buddha. Their experiences would make Ngaba one of the engines of Tibetan resistance for decades to come, culminating in shocking acts of self-immolation. Eat the Buddha spans decades of modern Tibetan and Chinese history, as told through the private lives of Demick’s subjects, among them a princess whose family is wiped out during the Cultural Revolution, a young Tibetan nomad who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirti, an upwardly mobile entrepreneur who falls in love with a Chinese woman, a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance, and a Tibetan schoolgirl forced to choose at an early age between her family and the elusive lure of Chinese money. All of them face the same dilemma: Do they resist the Chinese, or do they join them? Do they adhere to Buddhist teachings of compassion and nonviolence, or do they fight? Illuminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century, trying to preserve one’s culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
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Author : Martin Saxer
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine written by Martin Saxer and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Social Science categories.
Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet. At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medicine as a system of knowledge and practice. Being important both to the agenda of the Party State’s policies on Tibet and to Tibetan self-understanding, the Tibetan medicine industry has become an arena in which different visions of Tibet’s future clash.