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Tibet, Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Patrick French
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-09 - Publisher: Vintage

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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
Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Sam van Schaik
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-28 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Presents a comprehensive history of the country, from its beginnings in the seventh century, to its rise as a Buddhist empire in medieval times, to its conquest
The Culture of the Book in Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings
The Mountains of Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 36
Authors: Mordicai Gerstein
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-09-07 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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After dying, a Tibetan woodcutter is given the choice of going to heaven or to live another life anywhere in the universe.
Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Phil Borges
Categories: Buddhism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

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"Photographer Phil Borges introduces Tibetans as individuals rather than as an anonymous element of a remote ethnic group. His first-hand interviews and portrai