Tibet in the Western Imagination
Tibet in the Western Imagination

Author: T. Neuhaus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1137264837

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Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures.

Tibetan Border Worlds
Tibetan Border Worlds

Author: Wim Van Spengen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1136173587

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The focus of the study is the Tibetan and Tibetanized border populations in the little known Himalayan high-valley of Nyishang in West Central Nepal close to the Tibetan border. There, a group of traders have greatly extended their external relations over the past century in the form of long-distance trade ventures, thereby thoroughly changing the internal conditions of socio-economic organizations in their home district. The object of the study is to establish whether larger geohistorical processes of structural change may be conceptualized in such a way as to link structuration at the level of the localized social group to the dynamics of the wider regional setting.

An Account of Tibet
An Account of Tibet

Author: Ippolito Desideri

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780415346788

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In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the eatural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism.

The Myth of Shangri-La
The Myth of Shangri-La

Author: Peter Bishop

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780520066861

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"Bishop's engrossing and readable account provides us with a fascinating picture of European myths concerning the Land of the Snows and of the role these myths played in shaping perceptions of the Orient. Bishop's riveting portrait of European conceptions is an important and exceptionally well written contribution to an understanding of Western attitudes toward Tibet and all of East Asia."--Morris Rossabi, author of Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

British India and Tibet: 1766-1910
British India and Tibet: 1766-1910

Author: Alastair Lamb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 0429817908

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This book, first published in 1960 and revised in 1986, is an important analysis of the under-studied Northern frontier of the British Indian Empire. It considers British relations across the Himalayas, looking at encounters with Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet.

Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 1: Tibet, Past and Present
Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 1: Tibet, Past and Present

Author: Henk Blezer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9004483071

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The proceedings of the seminars of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS) have developed into the most representative world-wide cross-section of Tibetan Studies. They are an indispensable reference-work for anyone interested in Tibet and capture the cutting edge of Tibet-related research. This volume is the first of three volumes of general proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS. It presents a careful selection of scholarly and academic articles on Tibetan history, which includes contemporary developments as well as a compact, but significant, linguistic section. The complete series covers ten volumes. The other seven volumes are the outcome of expert panels. Of special interest to readers of this book may be the edited volumes by Christopher Beckwith (linguistics), Helmut Eimer and David Germano (Buddhist canon), Lawrence Epstein (Khams pa history), Deborah Klimburg-Salter (art history) and the third volume of the general proceedings (Bhutan and art history).