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Lhasa

Author : Robert Barnett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023151011X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Lhasa written by Robert Barnett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets. In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful and lyrical exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Robert Barnett presents a searching and unforgettable portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. His book not only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places. Barnett juxtaposes contemporary accounts of Tibet, architectural observations, and descriptions by foreign observers to describe Lhasa and its current status as both an ancient city and a modern Chinese provincial capital. His narrative reveals how historical layering, popular memory, symbolism, and mythology constitute the story of a city. Besides the ancient Buddhist temples and former picnic gardens of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa describes the urban sprawl, the harsh rectangular structures, and the geometric blue-glass tower blocks that speak of the anxieties of successive regimes intent upon improving on the past. In Barnett's excavation of the city's past, the buildings and the city streets, interwoven with his own recollections of unrest and resistance, recount the story of Tibet's complex transition from tradition to modernity and its painful history of foreign encounters and political experiment.

My Journey to Lhasa

Author : Alexandra David-Néel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Journey to Lhasa written by Alexandra David-Néel and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tibet in Agony

Author : Jianglin Li
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088891
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Tibet in Agony written by Jianglin Li and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

To Lhasa in Disguise

Author : William Montgomery McGovern
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120614567
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book To Lhasa in Disguise written by William Montgomery McGovern and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Seen in Lhasa

Author : Claire Scobie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448118883
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Last Seen in Lhasa written by Claire Scobie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some go to Tibet seeking inspiration, others for adventure. The award-winning journalist, Claire Scobie, found both when she left her ordinary life in London and went to the Himalayas in search of a rare red lily. Her journey took her to Pemako, where few Westerners have set foot and where the myth of Shangri-la was born. It was here she became friends with Ani, an unusual Tibetan nun who was to change her life. Through seven journeys in Tibet, Claire chronicles a rapidly changing world - where monks talk on mobiles and Lhasa's sex industry thrives. But it is Ani, a penniless wanderer with a rich heart, who leaves an indelible impression. Together, in a culture where freedom of expression is forbidden, they risk arrest. And they forge an abiding friendship, based on intuition and deep respect. Evoking the luminous landscape of snow peaks and wild alpine gardens, Claire Scobie captures the paradoxes of contemporary Tibet, a land steeped in religion, struggling against oppression and galloping towards modernity. Last Seen in Lhasa is a unique story of insight and adventure that can touch us all.

Why Lhasa de Sela Matters

Author : Fred Goodman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731962X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Why Lhasa de Sela Matters written by Fred Goodman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson française, and South American folk melodies. In Canada, her album La Llorona won the Juno Award and went gold, and its follow-up, The Living Road, won a BBC World Music Award. Tragically, de Sela succumbed to breast cancer in 2010 at the age of thirty-seven after recording her final album, Lhasa. Tracing de Sela’s unconventional life and introducing her to a new generation, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters is the first biography of this sophisticated creative icon. Raised in a hippie family traveling between the United States and Mexico in a converted school bus, de Sela developed an unquenchable curiosity, with equal affinities for the romantic, mystic, and cerebral. Becoming a sensation in Montreal and Europe, the trilingual singer rejected a conventional path to fame, joining her sisters’ circus troupe in France. Revealing the details of these and other experiences that inspired de Sela to write such vibrant, otherworldly music, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters sings with the spirit of this gifted firebrand.

To Lhasa in Disguise

Author : William Montgomery McGovern
Publisher : New York, Century
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book To Lhasa in Disguise written by William Montgomery McGovern and published by New York, Century. This book was released on 1924 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Montgomery McGovern was an American adventurer, anthropologist and journalist. He was possibly an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones. McGovern claims he had to sneak into the Tibet disguised as a local porter. As Time reported in 1938: With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with an escort.--Wikipedia.

Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Françoise Pommaret
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004128668
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century written by Françoise Pommaret and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the history of Lhasa against the background of the triangular relations Tibetans-Mongols-Manchus.

The Lhasa Atlas

Author : Knud Larsen
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0906026571
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Lhasa Atlas written by Knud Larsen and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lhasa, the ancient capital of Tibet, is the most impressive of the few surviving traditional towns. This guide presents its unique architecture and building culture, topography, environment, historical development and townscape, as well as introducing future plans and issues concerning the safeguarding of Lhasa in the face of urban development.

Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

Author : Tubten Khtsun
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231142870
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule written by Tubten Khtsun and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy." In this eloquent autobiography, Khétsun describes what life was like during those troubled years. His account is one of the most dispassionate, detailed, and readable firsthand descriptions yet published of Tibet under the Communist occupation. Khétsun talks of his prison experiences as well as the state of civil society following his release, and he offers keenly observed accounts of well-known events, such as the launch of the Cultural Revolution, as well as lesser-known aspects of everyday life in occupied Lhasa. Since Communist China continues to occupy Tibet, the facts of this era remain obscure, and few of those who lived through it have recorded their experiences at length. Khétsun's story will captivate any reader seeking a refreshingly human account of what occurred during the Maoists' shockingly brutal regime.

A Doctor in Little Lhasa: One Year in Dharamsala with the Tibetans in Exile

Author : Holtz
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598588834
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A Doctor in Little Lhasa: One Year in Dharamsala with the Tibetans in Exile written by Holtz and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Required reading for students searching for a connection between medical training and social justice. Timothy Holtz's intimate recounting of a year spent serving Tibetan refugees in India describes his struggles with being unable, as one young physician with only a year to spend, to fix the many wrongs he witnessed. Holtz concludes that "practicing good medicine-whether in a modern city or an impoverished refugee community-is far more complex than opening up a magic bag and handing out its contents." Although Holtz may not be aware of it, his memoir is a testament to the fact that he did in fact learn to practice good medicine, and he has been at it ever since. His year in "Little Lhasa" led Holtz to deepen his understanding not only of clinical medicine, but of the social roots of disease and of the indivisibility of health and human rights, broadly conceived. Students and practitioners alike will find this book inspiring. - Paul E. Farmer, Presley Professor, Harvard Medical School; and Co-founder, Partners in Health Timothy Holtz's account is no romance about the joys of practicing medicine among Tibetan exiles in northern India. It is rather about people's suffering from diseases that should easily be prevented, a doctor's efforts to provide good care without the resources he should have, and a community's struggles to cope with the consequences of torture. Even more important for the practice of medicine, it is a story of how a doctor's duty to take care of patients is quite inseparable from seeking to protect their human rights. - Len Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights Open this book to find a wonderful story about a transformative journey for a young physician. Timothy Holtz went to India with a purpose, to help Tibetan refugees in their struggle for a better life and better health. Little did he know how much his year working in a small hospital with few resources would change the trajectory of his life. Filled with stories that are both compassionate and humbling, it reminds us all that changing the world happens one person at a time. - Zorba Paster, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; and Author of The Longevity Code - Your Personal Prescription for a Longer Sweeter Life In this warm and sensitive memoir, Timothy Holtz portrays the challenges confronting the Tibetan exile community in Dharamsala as it struggles to preserve its culture and traditions. In recounting heartwarming stories of illness and healing, Holtz also reveals his own personal path of growth and discovery as a physician. The episodes he tells are sobering, but also inspiring, such as fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis in newly arrived refugees, and assisting nuns who survived torture in their native Tibet only to face the hardships of an unfamiliar country. I recommend this book for anyone interested in better understanding the lives of Tibetans in exile, as they fight to survive and to safeguard their traditional culture and human dignity. - Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Director, Emory-Tibet Partnership; and Spiritual Director, Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.

Lhasa

Author : Robert Barnett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136811
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Lhasa written by Robert Barnett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets. In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful and lyrical exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Robert Barnett presents a searching and unforgettable portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. His book not only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places. Barnett juxtaposes contemporary accounts of Tibet, architectural observations, and descriptions by foreign observers to describe Lhasa and its current status as both an ancient city and a modern Chinese provincial capital. His narrative reveals how historical layering, popular memory, symbolism, and mythology constitute the story of a city. Besides the ancient Buddhist temples and former picnic gardens of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa describes the urban sprawl, the harsh rectangular structures, and the geometric blue-glass tower blocks that speak of the anxieties of successive regimes intent upon improving on the past. In Barnett's excavation of the city's past, the buildings and the city streets, interwoven with his own recollections of unrest and resistance, recount the story of Tibet's complex transition from tradition to modernity and its painful history of foreign encounters and political experiment.

Seeing Lhasa

Author : Clare Harris
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781932476040
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Lhasa written by Clare Harris and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent donations to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK, of vintage photos and films by British travelers to Tibet, prompted an exhibit and this book; which discusses the unique visual record of Tibet's capital city in a bygone era, complemented by watercolors by an Indian artist, of the 1940 installation of the 14th Dalai Lama.

Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Françoise Pommaret
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004489819
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century written by Françoise Pommaret and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the rise of Lhasa, before 1642 a small town, renowned for its Jokhang temple and its three large 15th century Gelukpa monasteries. The political victory of the Gelukpa changed its destiny and it was the Fifth Dalai Lama who made Lhasa into the centre of the Tibetan world, with an influence reaching into Mongolia and Ladakh. It became a true capital, with prestigious monuments, and the Potala Palace as its focus and symbol. Based on Tibetan and Western sources, the book provides a fascinating study of the history of Lhasa against the background of the triangular relations Tibetans-Mongols-Manchus. With ample attention for 17th century Lhasa’s historical, political and cultural context, it offers new insights on Lhasa, also, in the last chapter, in its contemporary Chinese framework.

Lhasa and Its Mysteries

Author : Laurence Austine Waddell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lhasa and Its Mysteries written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lhasa

Author : Perceval Landon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lhasa written by Perceval Landon and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lhasa and its Mysteries

Author : L. Austine Waddell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429859732
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Lhasa and its Mysteries written by L. Austine Waddell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1906, this volume emerged three years after the British expedition across the Alps to Lhasa, in which the author took part, and provided a first-hand British account of the mission. The expedition (also known as the British Invasion of Tibet) was intended to counter perceived Russian Imperial interests in access to India through Tibet. Its leaders did not anticipate the intention of Tibetans to resist the mission. The expedition allowed L. Austine Waddell, who had the opportunity to learn of Tibet during a previous posting at Darjeeling, to provide a first-hand account of Central Tibet, its capital at Lhasa, its Grand Lama religious hierarchy and its culture through following the narrative of the controversial British expedition. Despite the region’s historic relations with Asia, Europeans had previously had more difficulty accessing the country and its culture. This volume was the third edition in two years, having been made more accessible to accommodate for its favourable reception by the British public.