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Across the Tibetan Plateau, Ecosystems, Wildlife, And Conservation
Dorje Tsering
Robert L. Fleming
Liu Wulin
NATURAL HISTORY
A natural history and a collection of photographs of the vast Tibetan Plateau, compiled by three dedicated scholars.
(TBT117, $49.95) |
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Adventures With the Buddha, A Buddhism Reader
Jeffery Paine
RELIGION
Paine chooses nine influential 19th and 20th century western adventurers and their travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India for this riveting tale of religion, adventure and enlightenment.
(REL12, $16.95) |
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Altitude Illness: Prevention and Treatment, How to Stay Healthy at Altitude
Stephen Bezruchka
REFERENCE
This useful reference book provides essential information concerning the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness.
(REF02, $8.95) |
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Among Flowers, A Walk in the Himalaya
Jamaica Kincaid
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An atmospheric account of celebrated writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid's journey to Nepal and the Himalayas with a small team of botanists.
(HML62, $10.95) |
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Among Warriors, A Woman Martial Artist in Tibet
Pamela Logan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The account of an aerospace scientist turned adventurer and her quest to reach the Khampa warrior horseman of Eastern Tibet.
(TBT51, $13.00) |
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Ancient Wisdom, Living Tradition, The Spirit of Tibet in the Himalayas
Marcia Keegan
Dalai Lama
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A lovely photo essay on Tibetan life and culture.
(TBT48, $34.95) |
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Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath
Maurice Herzog
EXPLORATION
FAVORITE
This classic account of the first ascent of an 8,000-meter peak was dictated by expedition leader Herzog from his hospital bed in Paris.
(HML07, $16.95) |
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Below Another Sky, A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father
Rick Ridgeway
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A touching account of the return to a mountain where tragedy had struck 20 years earlier.
(TBT55, $25.00) |
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The Big Open, On Foot Across Tibet's Chang Tang
Rick Ridgeway
Conrad Anker
EXPLORATION
An adventure writer recounts his trek across Tibet's inhospitable northern region in search of the chiru, an endangered species of antelope.
(TBT80, $26.00) |
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Breaking Trail, A Climbing Life
Arlene Blum
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Blum reveals her transformation from scrawny girl in the flat Midwest to world-class climber in this inspirational memoir of a life in very high places: McKinley, Annapurna, Everest.
(HML72, $14.00) |
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Buddha
Karen Armstrong
RELIGION
A concise, thought-provoking biography of the Buddha in the Penguin Lives series, written by one of the foremost experts on world religions.
(REL09, $14.00) |
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Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All
Perry Garfinkel
RELIGION
A spiritual travelogue that scours the globe for the both the roots and world-wide extensions of Buddhism.
(REL30, $13.95) |
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Buddhism Plain and Simple
Steve Hagen
A clear and straightfoward introduction to Buddhism.
(REL31, $10.95) |
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Buddhism without Beliefs
Stephen Batchelor
RELIGION
An accessible, straightforward introduction to the major tenets of Buddhist wisdom, and particularly on their relevance to modern life.
(REL29, $13.00) |
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Buddhism, A Very Short Introduction
Damien Keown
RELIGION
One of a series of very brief, authoritative introductions by Oxford University Press with chapters on The Buddha, Karma, the Mahayana, Buddhism in Asia, Buddhist practices and ethics.
(ASA53, $11.95) |
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The Buddhist Handbook
John Snelling
RELIGION
Subtitled, "The Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice and History, " this even-handed book is a concise primer covering the history, philosophical foundation and practice of Buddhism.
(ASA08, $16.95) |
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Buddhist Himalayas
Olivier and Danielle Föllmi
Mattieu Ricard
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
COMING IN OCTOBER
A big, beautiful celebration of the Himalayas, featuring 185 richly colored, often double-page photographs and succinct accompanying essays by Mattieu Ricard on religion and culture.
(HML53, $29.95) |
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Cave in the Snow, A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment
Vicki MacKenzie
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The absorbing tale of a young English Buddhist and her experience as a hermit.
(HML61, $15.95) |
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The Central Philosophy of Tibet, A Study and Translation of Jey Tsong Khapa's Essence of True Eloquence
Robert A. F. Thurman
RELIGION
A key text by the great Tibetan philosopher Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) with a modern translation and overview by Robert Thurman.
(TBT85, $45.00) |
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Circling the Sacred Mountain
Tad Wise
Robert Thurman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman's account of his journey, both physical and spiritual, to the sacred graveyards, monasteries, and meditation caves of Kailas with Tad Wise and students.
(TBT54, $18.00) |
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Eastern Tibet, Bridging Tibet and China
Christoph Baumer
Therese Weber
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A portrait of the region at the heart of Tibetan culture, featuring 257 color photographs.
(TBT104, $60.00) |
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The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs
Robert Beer
RELIGION
An encyclopedic reference exploring the symbols found in the sacred Tibetan art of the thangka.
(TBT66, $65.00) |
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Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan
Gyurme Dorje
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN AUGUST
An outstanding guide to all of Tibet, including the central plateau, eastern provinces of Kham and Amdo, as well as Bhutan and the Kathmandu Valley. Dorje is a leading Buddhist scholar who knows the region well.
(TBT37, $29.95) |
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Gentle Bridges, Conversations With the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind
Jeremy Hayward
Francisco Varela
Dalai Lama
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A fascinating study of Buddhist faith, science and the interaction between the two, the result of a historic meeting between the Dalai Lama and a group of Western scientists.
(TBT100, $23.95) |
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Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk
Susan T. Hitchcock
John Esposito
Desmond Tutu
Mpho Tutu
RELIGION
A handsomely photgraphed tour of the five major world religions and the places that each one holds most sacred.
(REL05, $24.00) |
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God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories
Tom Bissell
LITERATURE
Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea.
(CAS117, $13.95) |
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Golden Buddha
Clive Cussler
Craig Dirgo
LITERATURE
Cussler and co-author Dirgo put their adventurers on a spy ship with an impossible mission -- find the Golden Buddha and its secrets, stolen by the Chinese from the Dalai Lama in 1959, and make a deal with Russia and China for an independent Tibet.
(TBT116, $7.99) |
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The Great Religions, Essential Questions
Marc-Alain Quaknin
Dom Robert Le Gall
Claude Levenson
Malek Chebel
Bruce Feiler
RELIGION
Four authors, representing four faiths -- Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, and Tibetan Buddhism -- respond to fundamental questions of religion in this clear, accessible overview.
(REL23, $24.95) |
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Happiness, A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Matthieu Ricard
RELIGION
The scientist-turned-monk's primer on Buddhism as a journey to fulfillment and transformation.
(GEN381, $14.99) |
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The Heart of the World, A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise
Ian Baker
The Dalai Lama
EXPLORATION
Climber and Buddhist scholar Ian Baker's account of discovery in the upper reaches of the Tsangpo Gorge in the heart of the Tibetan Himalayas. Before Baker's expedition, the gorge -- a mystical sanctuary of Tibetan Buddhism -- had not been explored since 1925.
(TBT78, $16.00) |
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Himalaya
Eric Valli
Anne de Sales
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A handsome collection of breathtaking photographs of the landscape and people of the Himalayas.
(HML64, $50.00) |
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Himalayan Enchantment, An Anthology
Frank Kingdon-Ward
EXPLORATION
An anthology by the great Himalayan explorer and plant-collector Frank Kingdon-Ward.
(HML03, $19.95) |
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Himalayan Quest, Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants
Ed Viesturs
EXPLORATION
A photographic chronicle of the first American to scale all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters without the use of supplemental oxygen.
(HML63, $32.00) |
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A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State
Melvyn C. Goldstein
HISTORY
A history of Tibet during the critical period from World War I to the Chinese takover in 1951.
(TBT56, $39.95) |
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The Hotel on the Roof of the World
Alec Le Sueur
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An entertaining memoir and account of life in Tibet by a man who worked at a hotel there for five years. It's an insightful look at contemporary politics, quirks and challenges.
(TBT81, $17.95) |
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In the Shadow of the Himalayas, A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908
Kurt Meyer
Pamela Deuel Meyer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A collection of 144 remarkable documentary photographs of Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sikkim at the turn of the 20th century by John Claude White (1853-1918), the first British Political Officer to Sikkim.
(HML71, $65.00) |
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Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness
Robert Thurman
Dalai Lama
RELIGION
In this popular book Buddhist monk, scholar and translator Robert Thurman mediates on Buddhism, Tibet and contemporary life.
(TBT73, $15.00) |
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Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
EXPLORATION
In this bestseller, climber and journalist Krakauer reconstructs a minute-by-minute account of what went wrong on the great mountain in 1996.
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It's Easier Than You Think, The Buddhist Way to Happiness
Sylvia Boorstein
RELIGION
A down-to-earth, warm-hearted introduction to the basic teaching of Buddhism.
(GEN264, $13.00) |
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Kailash Trekking Map
Gecko Maps
A detailed topographic map (1:50,000) of the trekking route circling Mount Kailas.
(TBT64, $16.95) |
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Kundun, A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama
Mary Craig
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A mesmerizing portrait of the Dalai Lama and his family, his parents, four brothers, and two sisters, and their fight for a free Tibet.
(TBT110, $20.00) |
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The Last River, The Tragic Race for Shangri-La
Todd Balf
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A thrilling account of a first-ever descent into the heart of Tibet.
(TBT44, $14.00) |
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Learning Practical Tibetan
Andrew Bloomfield
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A slim guide with two 90-minute audio tapes designed with the traveler in mind.
(TBT93, $55.00) |
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The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan
Anonymous
Lobsang Lhalungpa
LITERATURE
A biography of Jetsun Milarepa, one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets and a key figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Buddhism. A classic Tibetan folk tale full of magic, feuds, and humor.
(TBT98, $14.95) |
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Lonely Planet Tibet
Bradley Mayhew
John Vincent Bellezza
Tony Wheeler
Chris Taylor
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to Tibet with maps, features on Tibetan and Mandarin language, notes on Buddhism, Tibetan culture and its rich history.
(TBT50, $26.99) |
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Lonely Planet Tibetan Phrasebook
Sandup Tsering
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A brief guide to Tibetan with transliterations of place names, pronunciation guide and common phrases.
(TBT52, $8.99) |
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Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama
Tulku Chagdud
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Cagdud, an internationally renowned Vajrayana Buddhist Master, was forced into exile by the Chinese invasion and lived for 20 years in India and Nepal serving as a doctor and lama to his fellow refugees.
(TBT99, $16.95) |
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Mahayana Buddhism, The Doctrinal Foundations
Paul Williams
RELIGION
A clear, scholarly summary of the principles of Mahayana Buddhism as they are found in both the Indo-Tibetan and East Asian forms of Mahayana.
(ASA60, $39.95) |
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The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Jean-Francois Revel
Matthieu Ricard
RELIGION
This collection of dialogues on Buddhism, philosophy, science, politics, and other subjects takes the form of a conversation between the Buddhist scholar and his father.
(REL28, $14.95) |
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Monk Dancers of Tibet
Mattieu Ricard
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Matthieu Ricard documents, in words and full-color photographs, the traditional dances of the monks at the Shechen monastery.
(TBT77, $29.95) |
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The Mount Kailash Trek
Constance Roos
Sian Pritchard-Jones
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, practical trekker's guide to Tibet's sacred mountain and western Tibet.
(TBT115, $22.95) |
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On Top of the World, Five Women Explorers in Tibet
Luree Miller
EXPLORATION
An inspiring account of the adventures of five intrepid women explorers in 19th-century Tibet.
(TBT28, $12.95) |
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Peaks and Lamas
Marco Pallis
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A classic account of mountaineering and Buddhist Tibet, first published in 1949.
(TBT83, $18.00) |
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Pilgrimage, Past and Present in the World Religions
Simon Coleman
John Elsner
RELIGION
An illustrated survey, organized thematically, of Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Indian and Buddhist pilgrimages and sacred travel.
(REL07, $26.50) |
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Pilgrimage, Twenty Journeys to Inspire the Soul
David Souden
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An illusrtated account of journeys to sacred places.
(GEN247, $29.95) |
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A Plant Hunter in Tibet
Frank Kingdon-Ward
EXPLORATION
The lively account of a 1933 expedition to a remote corner of southeast Tibet.
(TBT105, $26.00) |
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Red Dust, A Path Through China
Ma Jian
Flora Drew
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An astounding memoir by an urban poet, painter and writer on the road to Tibet. A vagabond, rebel, and Buddhist, Jian abandons his Beijing life for a 3-year southwestern journey through Tibet, Burma, and Guizhou Province.
(CHN150, $15.00) |
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Red Poppies
Alai
Howard Goldblatt
Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
LITERATURE
This family saga unfolds among the warlords of eastern Tibet in the 1930s before the Chinese occupation.
(TBT61, $14.00) |
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Religions of Tibet in Practice
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
RELIGION
A collection of 36 essays and translated texts by scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, including selections on prayers, pilgrimages, death and ritual.
(TBT16, $37.95) |
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Sacred Landsacpe and Pilgrimage in Tibet, In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon
Gesha Gelek Jinpa
Charles Ramble
V. Carroll Dunham
Thomas L. Kelly
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The inspiring account of a historic pilgrimage from Nepal to Mount Kailas by a young Bon monk and his American travel companions, as stunningly recorded by photographer Thomas Kelly. Includes 160 color illusrtations and DVD.
(TBT112, $65.00) |
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The Sailfish and the Sacred Mountain, Passages in the Lives of a Father and Son
Will Johnson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A memoir and spiritual tale of a father-and-son journey to Mount Kailas.
(TBT79, $16.95) |
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The Search for Shangri-La, A Journey into Tibetan History
Charles Allen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Both travelogue and straight-ahead religious history.
(TBT67, $14.95) |
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The Search for the Panchen Lama
Isabel Hilton
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A skillful and subtle story of the selection -- and kidnapping -- of the 11th incarnation of the Pachen Lama, revealing much of the current state of affairs between Tibet and China.
(TBT43, $14.95) |
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Seeing Lhasa, British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital, 1936-1947
Clare Harris
Tsering Shakya
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An extraordinary document of the country. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, this book presents a trove of photographs, albums and film by Harry Staunton, Evan Nepean, Hugh Richardson and other British visitors to Tibet.
(TBT71, $39.95) |
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Seven Years in Tibet
Jean-Jacques Annaud
The 1997 blockbuster film starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis. Based on the classic memoir by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who became tutor to the Dalai Lama.
(TBT101, $14.94) |
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The Skull Mantra
Eliot Pattison
MYSTERY
The first in Pattison's series of superb political thrillers set in Tibet. When a headless corpse turns up on a Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun is released from prison to investigate the crime, and he quickly uncovers a conspiracy involving American mining interests, corrupt Party officials, and Tibetan sorcerers. Winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
(TBT106, $7.99) |
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So Close to Heaven, The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
Barbara Crossette
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Asia correspondent for the New York Times, Crossette portrays Bhutan and neighboring Ladakh and Sikkim as strongholds of Tantric Buddhism in an increasingly homogenized world.
(NPL04, $16.00) |
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South Asia
Sumit Ganguly
HISTORY
A scholarly history of modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
(IDA308, $18.00) |
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The Spirit of Tibet, Portrait of a Culture in Exile
Alison Wright
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A handsome pictorial essay on Tibetan culture and people in exile.
(IDA159, $34.95) |
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The Story of Buddhism, A Concise Guide to Its History & Teachings
Donald S. Lopez
RELIGION
An overview of Buddhism by a well-known scholar.
(ASA42, $15.95) |
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Story of Tibet, Conversations With the Dalai Lama
Thomas Laird
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The extraordinary history of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism as recounted by the Dalai Lama.
(TBT92, $17.00) |
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Tears of Blood, A Cry for Tibet
Mary Craig
HISTORY
A hard-hitting history of Tibet since 1959.
(TBT82, $17.50) |
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Temptations of the West, How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond
Pankaj Mishra
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The thread that binds these engaging accounts of Panjak's insightful travel through South Asia (Buddhist Tibet, Bollywood, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal) is the confrontation of traditional and modern society.
(ASA51, $15.00) |
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Tibet's Sacred Mountain, The Extraordinary Pilgrimage to Mount Kailas
Russell Johnson
Kerry Moran
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
In this handsome illustrated journal, two Americans record their journey around 22,000-foot Mt. Kailas, documenting the landscapes, rituals and traditions of the sacred mountain.
(TBT41, $25.00) |
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Tibet, An Enduring Civilization
Francoise Pommaret
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This pocket-size encyclopedia, packed with hundreds of full-color illustrations and photos, highlights the culture and history of Tibet. Pommaret, who has written widely on the Himalayas, devotes a section to Tibet today, titled Invasion and Colonization.
(TBT69, $12.95) |
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Tibet, An Inner Journey
Matthieu Ricard
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Ricard draws on his long association with the region and Buddhism for this collection of 191 vivid color photographs of the people and landscapes of Kham, or Eastern Tibet.
(TBT113, $45.00) |
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Tibet, The Roof of the World between Past and Present
Maria Antonia Sironi Diemberger
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A photographic portrait of Tibet.
(TBT49, $45.00) |
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Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land
Patrick French
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A powerful account of travels in Tibet, part memoir and part political analysis.
(TBT76, $14.95) |
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Liberation from Understanding the In Between
Robert Thurman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A key text as presented by Robert Thurman for a western audience. This is the Tibetan guidebook to dying or "the between," written in the 8th or 9th century by Padma Sambhava.
(TBT06, $18.00) |
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Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up, A Practical Approach for Modern Life
B. Alan Wallace
RELIGION
A straightforward primer on the essentials of Buddhism as practiced in Tibet. The book is the result of a lecture series introducing the practice of Buddhism to the general public.
(TBT19, $15.95) |
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Tibetan Buddhist Life
Don Farber
RELIGION
A beautiful and informative celebration of Tibetan Buddhist culture.
(TBT70, $30.00) |
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Tibetan Folk Tales
Fredrick Hyde-Chambers
Audrey Hyde-Chambers
LITERATURE
An anthology of legends and fables, first published in 1981, including the Tibetan creation myth, Buddhist tales, and the famous epic of King Gesar of Ling, a national hero.
(TBT59, $21.00) |
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A Tibetan on Tibet
Paul Sherap
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The 1926 account by Dorje Zodba of his adventurous early boyhood and travels as told to British Consul and Buddhist scholar Combe.
(TBT109, $12.95) |
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Tibetan Pilgrimage, Architecture of the Sacred Land
Michel Peissel
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This visual guide to Tibet, its monstseries, villages and sacred sites features Peissel's gorgeous watercolor illustrations.
(TBT89, $35.00) |
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Travelers' Tales Tibet
James O'Reilly
Larry Habegger
ANTHOLOGY
An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of eyewitness reports.
(TBT65, $18.95) |
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Tsangpo Gorges
Frank Kingdon-Ward
EXPLORATION
Legendary plant-explorer Kingdon-Ward's original account of his 1924-1925 expedition to the source of the Tsangpo, expertly edited and annotated by modern explorer Kenneth Cox, who brings the story of the exploration of this almost inaccessible corner of south-east Tibet up to date. With 250 color photographs.
(TBT103, $75.00) |
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Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925
Mabel H. Cabot
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An illustrated account of a 1920s expedition to Western China, Inner Mongolia, and northwestern Tibet, featuring 140 documentary photographs of remote Imperial China (many hand tinted).
(TBT91, $35.00) |
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The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival
Ama Adhe
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Ama Adhe recounts with dignity and clarity her 27 years in prison for supporting the Khampa resitance to the Chinese takeover of Tibet.
(TBT102, $16.95) |
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War at the Top of the World, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet
Eric Margolis
HISTORY
An overview of geography, religion and politics of the High Himalayas, and its strategic value to Pakistan, India and China. Updated throughout in this second edition, with a new chapter on the Taliban.
(PKN09, $25.95) |
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Water Touching Stone
Eliot Pattison
MYSTERY
The second of Pattison's superb political thrillers set in Tibet. Aided by a young Kazakh woman, former Beijing police investigator Shan Tao Yun heads for a remote Tibetan plateau to investigate the murder of a venerated teacher and the subsequent disappearance of a lama, but his probe is soon complicated by the resentment of local Tibetans, a sullen resistance fighter, and a dead American.
(TBT107, $7.99) |
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What Makes You Not a Buddhist
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
RELIGION
From the Buddhist lama and filmmaker comes a book on viewing the postmodern Western world through Buddhist perspectives on happiness, suffering, and enlightenment, written with warmth and wit.
(TBT96, $19.95) |
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The Wheel of Life, The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist
John Blofeld
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Blofeld's ( (1913-1987) enchanting account of Buddhist worlds now largely vanished, including his life and travels in China, Tibet, Mongolia, India and Burma.
(HML76, $30.00) |
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The Wisdom of the Buddha
Jean Boisselier
RELIGION
A pocket-size primer of Buddhism, this book is an illustrated history of the sixth-century Indian prince and his quest for enlightenment. With 207 illustrations, 160 in full color.
(IDA55, $12.95) |
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A Woman's Asia
Marybeth Bond
ANTHOLOGY
These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95) |
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Worlds of Transformation
Marilyn M. Rhie
Robert Thurman
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Two hundred exquisite Tibetan thangka paintings from the 12th through the 20th centuries, spanning the spectrum of Tibetan artistic schools.
(TBT97, $95.00) |
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Younghusband, The Last Great Imperial Adventurer
Patrick French
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The riveting biography of Sir Francis Younghusband, a key player in Britain's scramble for power in Central Asia.
(TBT75, $16.00) |
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