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: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, The Snow Leopard, My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero, The Art of Happiness, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, Tibet: A History, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography
| Author | Palden Gyatso |
| ISBN | 0802135749 |
Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0140255087 |
“The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.”...
My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0446674214 |
I'm kind of torn on what I think about this book. On one hand I feel kind of jipped. The first few chapters were marvelous, and ridiculously interesting, but then it became 100% political. I feel as though I can recount every single detail of the struggle between Tibet & China. I feel as though I bought...
The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama
| Author | Melvyn C. Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0520219511 |
Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict?...
| Author | Stephan Talty |
| ISBN | 0307460959 |
On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The...
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1573221112 |
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness...
| Author | Tsering Shakya |
| ISBN | 0140196153 |
Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing...
| Author | Sam Van Schaik |
| ISBN | 0300154046 |
Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.
Sam van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life...
| Author | Thomas Laird |
| ISBN | 0802118275 |
The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one...
| Author | Diki Tsering |
| ISBN | 0670889059 |
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant family, who eventually marries at age sixteen and gives birth to the future H.H. Dalai Lama. The story is told chronologically,...
The Way of the White Clouds
| Author | Lama Anagarika Govinda |
"A devoted Buddhist and a spokesman for Tibetan culture, Lama Anagarika Govinda was one of the last foreigners to journey through Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. Govinda's luminous and candid account is a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, and a sensitive...
| Author | Ian Baker |
| ISBN | 1594200270 |
The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the...
