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John Crook |
Yogins of Ladakh |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| It investigates the social anthropology of the area through studies of
village life. Further it enquires the social organisations, history,
meditational practices and philosophy of the yogins who still lived and
practised in the remote parts of the area. This study is a record of author's
findings about Ladakhi Yogins.
In 1977 prof. Crook led an expedition to Zangskar in Ladakh initiating a series of studies on the ecology of village and monastic life in the Buddhist Himalayas. During... |
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Samten G. Karmay |
The Treasury of Good Sayings - A Tibetan History of Bon |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This volume is a partial translation of the Tibetan text, 'legsbshad-mdzod,' a history of the Bon religion. Bon is a pre-Buddhist system of belief in Tibet, which survived many persecutions, and still covered large parts of Tibet till occupation by Communist China in 1959. The book gives a full account of the ancient religion, its origins and developments, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two... |
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Sylvia Wong |
The Karmapa Prophecies  |
$63.99 $44.79 |
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| In 1981, the revered 16th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, passed away. His death set n motion a process to identify his reincarnated successor that originated 900 years ago with the 1st Karmapa who was the first Tibetan Buddhist master ever to reincarnate. Since the early 1990's, the identification of the 17th Karmapa has been mired in controversy; causing a schism in the Karma Kagyu sect. two competing factions within the sect have recognized different... |
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A.H. Francke |
History of Western Tibet: One of the Unknown Empires |
$14.50 $10.15 |
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| A History of Western Tibet is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources of information. The western Tibetan sources of information are records on stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh. Though these are edited ones, much remains to be done.
The readers will find A History of Western Tibet interesting which is the outcome of scholarly enterprise and research as much as of familiarity with the... |
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Greta Rana |
A Place Beneath the Pipal Tree |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| This novel was first published in German by Ehrenwirth verlag, Munich, and is distributed through Luebbe Books as 'Im Schatten des heiligen Baumes'.
It describes three generations of Sherpa women, the men in their lives, the times they lived in, and the dilemmas they faced.
While not over romanticising the past, when it was originally written it could almost have been prophetic in its misgivings about the future in an environment governed by status and taboo, in which women have to... |
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Bu Ston |
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet |
$10.50 $7.35 |
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| The History of Buddhism and Tibet contains the translation of the 2nd part of Bu-ton's History of Buddhism, beginning with the life of Buddha and ending with an account of the work carried out by the Tibetan Lotsvas and Indian Pandits of Bu-ton's own period and immediately before him (XII and XIII cent.). The
book contains translations of the Buddhist Cannonical texts, exegetical
treatise from Sanskrit and numerous quotations from both sutra and sastra.
Because of this it... |
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Claude Arpi |
The Fate of Tibet |
$33.49 $23.44 |
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| This book is an in-depth study of the origins of the fate of a nation.
It begins from the time Buddhism was introduced in Tibet. It studies the evolution of the Priest-Patron Relationship with the Mongol Khans and later the Manchu Dynasty. It observes the effect of the appearance, in the eighteenth, of a new player on the stage: the British Empire with its 'large insect' expansionist policies and its rivalry with the Russian Empire.
It looks at the conservative attitude of the Tibetan... |
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Claude Arpi |
Born in Sin: The Panchsheel Agreement |
$27.99 $19.59 |
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| The Sacrifice of Tibet: A hundred years ago a young British Colonel, Francis Younghusband entered the holy city of Lhasa and forced upon the Tibetans their first Agreement with the mighty British empire. In signing this treaty with the Crown, Tibet was acknowledged as a separate nation by the British. Ten years later, London called for a tripartite Conference in Simla to settle the issue: British India, Tibet and China sat together at a negotiation table for the first time.... |
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Charles Bell |
Religion of Tibet |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This volume forms a sequel to the author`s Tibet: Past and Present and The people of Tibet. Like them, it is in part an historical account, in part a description of conditions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Sir Charles Bell traces the history of the introduction to Buddhism, of the resistance and general decay of the older magic-worship of Ponism, and of the developments which have taken place within Tibetan Buddhism itself. The latter part of the book deals more particularly... |
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Seigfrried Lienhard |
Songs of Nepal - An Anthopology of Nevar Folksongs and Hymns |
$11.95 $8.37 |
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| An Anthopology of Nevar Folksongs and Hymns |
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Capt. W F O'Connor |
Folk Tales from Tibet |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| Folk Tales from Tibet is a collection of some of the most exquisite stories from Tibet recorded by Captan W F O'Connor.
These tales were collected during his tenure as secretary and interpreter with the Lhasa Mission of 1904. They were compiled at a time when the western world knew little or nothing about this mystical and exotic country. |
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William Woodville Rockhili |
The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet |
$15.90 $11.13 |
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| "Rockhill was a remarkable American orientalist who was a diplomat in Beijing. He
was fascinated with Tibet, and worked for four years to study Tibetan (he
was already fluent in Chinese). In 1888 he resigned his position
and set off westward from Beijing on the Silk Road. His intent was
to get to Lhasa disguised as a Chinese. His plan was thwarted but, undaunted, he tried again
a year later; this time he got within 100 miles of his goal. While... |
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Claude Apri |
And long and dark shall be the night |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| This study tries to understand some of the events which occurred in Tibet during the first part of the 20th century. |
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Rene De Nebesky-Wojkowitz |
Oracles and Demons of Tibet |
$33.33 $23.33 |
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| This book, a reprint of a long out-of-print study sheds fascinating insights on the occult secrets of Tibetan mysticism. It details the classification, appearance, and attributes of the Tibetan protective deities, their iconography, sacrifices, ceremonies, oracles, ritual dances, black magic and their cult of weather making.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Iconography of the Protective Deities
The Protective Deities. Their Classification, Appearance and Attributes
A. The... |
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Yeshi Dorjee |
The Three Boys: And Other Buddhist Folktales from Tibet |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| A virtuous young woman journeys to the land of the Dead to retrieve the still-beating heart of a king; a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free, the king falls under a curse that turns him into a cannibal; a shepherd who understands the speech of animals, saves a princess from certain death. These are just a few of the wondrous tales that await readers of this collection of Tibetan Buddhist Folktales. Fifteen stories are told for modern readers in a vivid, accessible... |
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Sangharakshita |
Tibetan Buddhism: An Introduction |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| A glorious past, a traumatic present, an uncertain future. What are we to make of Tibetan Buddhism? In the West it has an exotic, even glamorous image: there are books about secret teachings, and films about mysterious lamas. But if Western Buddhists are to learn anything of real value from Tibet, we must look beyond the merely exotic. Tibetan Buddhism, as Sangharakshita makes it clear, is a practical tradition with much to teach us. |
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Ganpat Gompertz |
Magic Ladakh: Land of Topsy Turvy Customs & Natural Beauty |
$38.49 $26.94 |
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| The high Snows in general and Ladakh in particular, exercise an attraction which is irresistible if, reader, you like me, love the quainter corners, the quainter people of the world even if, like me, you refuse to believe that this trait of ours is du to forgotten lives of our own-then in exchange for an hour or two of your time I will try to show you, as much as can be shown through the medium of mere words, one of the most fascinating countries I have even seen-Ladakh, which I call... |
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Robert A.F. Thurman |
Tibetan Book of the Dead |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| The Tibetan Book of the Dead has been renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western world for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying-and what they can teach us about the ways in which we live our lives. It has also been found to be helpful in the grieving process.
Composed in the eight century, it is intended as an aid to preparing for the trials and transformations of the... |
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