[PDF] Into Little Thibet eBook

Author : David Vaala
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780764342813

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Over the course of five years, photographer David Vaala embedded himself in Ladakh, a mountainous corner of Northwestern India, to capture "Little Tibet": its landscapes, culture, and people. More than 150 full-color, large-format images focus on the rare cham dances, masked dance-dramas, which are a unique aspect of Tibetan Buddhism. Using a make-shift studio, Vaala documented these brief annual ceremonies that narrate the story of Buddhism's spread into Tibetan culture. The images immortalize the cham ceremonies with detailed portraits of individual cham characters from each of the four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism as practiced in Ladakh. Further celebrating this isolated region are spectacular landscapes that feature Ladakh's terrain, nestled between two great mountain ranges, the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Portraits reveal its nomadic people in intimate detail. This book is ideal for those interested in photography, anthropology, world travel, and Tibetan Buddhism and culture.

Author : Lois Raimondo
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780590461672

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An illustrated biography of Ling Rinpochey, the young Buddhist monk who will be the next leader of the Tibetan people.

Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 1989-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064432114

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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.

Author : Naomi C. Rose
Publisher : Dancing Dakini Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : 9781574160819

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Text in English and Tibetan. Ages 9 to 12 years. This picture book features three beautifully illustrated tales from Tibet. Each story, told in English and Tibetan, offers a fun, enchanting glimpse of Tibetan culture. Children and adults will delight in the adventures with yaks, yetis, monks, wise men and mystical beings. The stories also impart simple wisdom and exemplify living in peace and kindness. Beautiful impressionistic paintings capture the essence of the Tibetan people and landscape. Young and old will enjoy these entertaining and thoughtful tales. "Tibetan Tales for Little Buddhas" includes a special foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as a glossary, map and description of a Tibetan chant. The author donates a percentage of her proceeds from the book to benefit Tibetan refugee children through the Art Refuge Program.

Author : Emily Yeh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801469775

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The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork between 2000 and 2009, Yeh traces how the transformation of the material landscape of Tibet between the 1950s and the first decade of the twenty-first century has often been enacted through the labor of Tibetans themselves. Focusing on Lhasa, Yeh shows how attempts to foster and improve Tibetan livelihoods through the expansion of markets and the subsidized building of new houses, the control over movement and space, and the education of Tibetan desires for development have worked together at different times and how they are experienced in everyday life. The master narrative of the PRC stresses generosity: the state and Han migrants selflessly provide development to the supposedly backward Tibetans, raising the living standards of the Han's "little brothers." Arguing that development is in this context a form of "indebtedness engineering," Yeh depicts development as a hegemonic project that simultaneously recruits Tibetans to participate in their own marginalization while entrapping them in gratitude to the Chinese state. The resulting transformations of the material landscape advance the project of state territorialization. Exploring the complexity of the Tibetan response to—and negotiations with—development, Taming Tibet focuses on three key aspects of China's modernization: agrarian change, Chinese migration, and urbanization. Yeh presents a wealth of ethnographic data and suggests fresh approaches that illuminate the Tibet Question.

Author : Deepa Agarwal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8184758472

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Fourteen-year-old Debu sets off across the high mountain passes from Kumaon to Tibet to search for his father who got lost in a blizzard the year before. Adventures follow thick and fast—a forced stay in a monastery with a boy lama who takes a fancy to him, his capture by the cruel, enigmatic bandit Nangbo, who has magical powers, and a stay in the legendary goldfields of Thok Jalong. And finally—a heart-pounding, breathtaking horse race. Does Debu find his father. Does he win the race? Pick up this page-turner to find out!

Author : Jianglin Li
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674088891

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In 1959 the Dalai Lama emerged in India, where he set up his government in exile. Soon after he left Lhasa the Chinese People's Liberation Army pummeled the city in the "Battle of Lhasa." The Tibetans were forced to capitulate, putting Mao in a position to impose Communist rule over Tibet