Author: Dalai Lama
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: tibet, lama, dali, holiness, text, fourteenth
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 1995-04-11
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0520089480
ISBN-13: 9780520089488
One of the world’s spiritual leaders and a renowned wilderness photographer combine their vision of Tibet in this stunningly beautiful book. Essays by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama appear with Galen Rowell’s dramatic images in a moving presentation of the splendors of Tibet’s revered but threatened heritage.When Chinese communist troops invaded Tibet in 1950, the author was fifteen years old and the spiritual and temporal ruler of a nation the size of western Europe. Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, appealed to the United Nations for help and then fled across th
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Publisher: Sony Pictures
Keywords: tibet, years, seven
Published:
List price: $14.94
ISBN-10: 0767806239
ISBN-13: 9780767806237
AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF ANAUSTRIAN PRISONER OF WAR WHO IS BEFRIENDED BY TIBET’S DALAI LAMAON THE EVE OF THE COMMUNIST INVASION.
Author: Alai
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: tibet, novel, poppies, red
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-05-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0618340696
ISBN-13: 9780618340699
A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic, Red Poppies focuses on the extravagant and brutal reign of a clan of Tibetan warlords during the rise of Chinese Communism. The story is wryly narrated by the chieftain’s son, a self-professed "idiot" who reveals the bloody feuds, seductions, secrets, and scheming behind his family’s struggles for power. When the chieftain agrees to grow opium poppies with seeds supplied by the Chinese Nationalists in exchange for modern weapons, he draws Tibet into the opium trade -- and unwittingly plants the seeds for a downfall. A "swashbuckling no
Author: McKay
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: tibet, history
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415308445
ISBN-13: 9780415308441
Author: McKay
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: tibet, history
Published:
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ISBN-10: 0415308429
ISBN-13: 9780415308427
Author: Heinrich Harrer
Publisher: Tarcher
Keywords: tibet, years, seven
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-08-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0874778883
ISBN-13: 9780874778885
A German author and mountaineer recounts his escape into Tibet during the Second World War, and his subsequent acceptance into the Tibetan upper class and friendship with the Dalai Lama. Reprint. Movie tie-in. 50,000 first printing. One Spirit Alt."
Author: Eiichi Matsumoto
Publisher: New Dawn Pre
Keywords: tibet, heart
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1932705716
ISBN-13: 9781932705713
This magnificent collection features photographs of Tibet’s breathtaking landscapes and sacred monasteries alongside teachings of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Separated into two halves—one containing reflections on the happiness of the human mind and the spiritual uplift of mankind, the other examining the Tibetan way of life—this compilation offers a unique look at the land’s aesthetic and cultural appeal. From the lives of Tibetan farmers and the importance of religion to the concept of national egoism and the Potala Palace, the images and text combine to provide a true in
