Tibet

Jetsun Pema är syster till Dalai Lama. Hon föddes 1940, samma år som han knappt fem år gammal placerades på Lejontronen i Tibet som tibetanernas andlige och världslige ledare. Hon …

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path, or Mahayana, …

Sofie Gardestedt, som debuterar som författare med Juvelen i Lotusblomman, förverkligade en dröm genom att resa till Tibet. Genom sin bok uppmanar hon dig att förverkliga dina …

Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the …

Då Maria Blumencron gjorde sin första dokumentärfilm Flykten över Himalaya mötte hon sex tibetanska barn på gränsen mellan Tibet och Nepal, i slutet av deras fjorton dagar långa …

Min väg till Tibet är en självbiografisk berättelse om en ung blind kvinnas enastående insats att hjälpa blinda barn i Tibet till både skolgång och en möjlighet till …

The 4th edition of Footprint's critically acclaimed guide to Tibet will help you navigate your way around this slow-paced plateau the size of Western Europe. With detailed listings …

This book includes seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that were first published in English in 1935. A companion to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, it is illustrated with …

This fascinating study of two British missions to Tibet in 1774 and 1904 provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the Enlightenment and European colonialism. …

Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) qualified in medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University and in 1880 embarked on a successful career in the colonial Indian Medical Service …

Drawing from a wide range of scholarship from mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, this book looks at the history and politics of Tibet from a fresh perspective. Addressing …

This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in …

Hälsa är balans. Om förhållandet mellan läkekonst och Buddhism i Tibet. Författaren Jan Bärmark har talat med tibetanska läkare och lamor och följt tibetanska läkares arbete i …

In this stunning read, veteran foreign correspondent Eric Margolis presents a revelatory history of the complicated and volatile conflicts that entangle one of the most beautiful …

Here is the most comprehensive photography to date of a little-known and seldom-visited land whose area equals western Europe. The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from …

Tragedy in Crimsonis award-winning journalist Tim Johnson's extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson …

Very little is known in the West about Tibetan Buddhism in comparison with other eastern religions. This is partly because the vast literature which it has produced, and which …

The land of Tibet - its people, culture, and religion - has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of …

Tibet has been occupied for over fifty years, yet no progress has been made in solving the Tibetan problem. The first serious analysis of the Tibetan independence movement, this …