Category Archives: Tibet

Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, Volume 1

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Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope

In March of 1959, a 23-year-old Tibetan youth named Tenzin Gyatso burst onto the world stage. Fleeing his native country to govern in exile from India, the Dalai Lama would go on to become one of the great leaders of … Continue reading

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Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the literature this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan … Continue reading

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Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library)

Early medieval Tibet remains one of the most challenging fields in Tibetan Studies overall, wherein numerous mysteries remain. The six contributions comprising the present collection shed light on major topics in history, literature and religion.

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The Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library)

The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among … Continue reading

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Britain and Tibet 1765-1947: A Select Annotated Bibliography of British Relations with Tibet and the Himalayan States including Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan
Revised and Updated to 2003

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet’s claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of … Continue reading

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Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture

Eastern Europe is a historical concept, Niederhauser asserts, and as such is subject to the movement of history that often takes place under geographical conditions. surveys the first five hundred years of Eastern European history, focusing on structural elements in … Continue reading

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Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun

Himalayan Hermitess is a vivid account of the life and times of a Buddhist nun living on the borderlands of Tibetan culture. Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and … Continue reading

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The British Empire and Tibet 1900-1922 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband’s invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new … Continue reading

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Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain: Transplantation, Development and Adaptation (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on the British religious landscape: the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC). The key contributions of … Continue reading

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