Images of Enlightenment

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Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Images of Enlightenment by : Jonathan Landaw

Download or read book Images of Enlightenment written by Jonathan Landaw and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in its explanation of the relationship between the multifaceted symbolism of Tibetan Buddhist deity images and meditative practice.

The Tibetans

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118725379
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tibetans by : Matthew T. Kapstein

Download or read book The Tibetans written by Matthew T. Kapstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history. A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history. Responds to current interest in Tibet due to continuing publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest in Tibetan Buddhism. Explains recent events within the context of Tibetan history. Situates Tibet in relation to other Asian civilizations through the ages. Draws on the most recent scholarly and archaeological research. Introduces Tibetan culture – particularly social institutions, religious and political traditions, the arts and medical lore. An epilogue considers the fragile position of Tibetan civilization in the modern world.

Tibetan Written Images

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ISBN 13 : 9789521071331
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan Written Images by : Riika J. Virtanen

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Tibetan Written Images

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ISBN 13 : 9789519380865
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan Written Images by : Riika J.. Virtanen

Download or read book Tibetan Written Images written by Riika J.. Virtanen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tibetan Calligraphy

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 086171699X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan Calligraphy by : Sanje Elliott

Download or read book Tibetan Calligraphy written by Sanje Elliott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tibetan Calligraphy, Sanje Elliott shows us how to capture the elegance and grace of Tibetan calligraphy without prior knowledge of either Tibetan language or calligraphy. This beautiful book includes many prayers, mantras, and seed syllables to copy and study. Perfect for practitioners, artists, and anyone interested in the Tibetan language.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Publisher : Lustree Press: Roli Books
ISBN 13 : 9788174364364
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (643 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tibetan Book of the Dead by : Glenn H. Mullin

Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Glenn H. Mullin and published by Lustree Press: Roli Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tibetan Book of the Dead brings together a range of stunning images by the renowned photographer Thomas Kelly, with a contextual analysis and abridged translation by the ubiquitous Tibetologist Glenn H. Mullin. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bardo Todol, is one of the great classics of Tibetan literature. The present volume is a fresh look at this timeless classic. It brings together a range of stunning images by the renowned photographer Thomas Kelly, with a contextual analysis and abridged translation by the ubiquitous Tibetologist Glenn H. Mullin. As such, the Bardo Todol is as relevant as a guidebook to daily (and nightly) living as it is to a successful death and transmigration. Thomas Kelly s photographs bring this great Tibetan classic to life, and draw the reader into a deeper sense of the spiritual environment in which The Tibetan Book of the Dead exists.

Tibetan

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283060
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibetan by : Philip Denwood

Download or read book Tibetan written by Philip Denwood and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect, the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography.

The Museum on the Roof of the World

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317471
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis The Museum on the Roof of the World by : Clare Harris

Download or read book The Museum on the Roof of the World written by Clare Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.

Tibet in Pictures

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Tibet in Pictures written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 b&w photographs offer a rare glimpse of the land, people, and religious practices of pre-1950 Tibet.

Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters

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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120842057
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters by : Don Farber

Download or read book Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters written by Don Farber and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned photographer Don Farber, one of the most important chroniclers of Buddhism today, brings the face and the spirit of contemporary Tibetan Buddhism alive with this remarkable book. Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters―a collection of superb color photographs presented with brief biographies and teachings from each master―is a vibrant work, a testament to the compassion and wisdom that lies at the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Farber felt compelled to record the last of the living Buddhist masters who received their training in Tibet and then fled the country following the invasion by China, as well as other masters who survived many years of imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. He has worked with a sense of urgency to photograph and interview these extraordinary beings who have been the custodians of this endangered Buddhist tradition. His collection of portraits also includes some of the bright lights of Tibetan Buddhism, the younger masters who will carry the tradition into the future. As a photographic archive of Tibetan Buddhist masters, this book plays an important role in preserving Tibetan culture, in all its richness and complexity, through the words and faces of its esteemed masters.

Tibet in Pictures: Expedition to central Tibet

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Publisher : Dharma Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Tibet in Pictures: Expedition to central Tibet by : Li Gotami Govinda

Download or read book Tibet in Pictures: Expedition to central Tibet written by Li Gotami Govinda and published by Dharma Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the last records of the vanished art and culture of Old Tibet. Over 200 stunning b&w photographs of Buddhist images, religious sites, and people, taken in central and western Tibet during 1947-1949.

On the Margins of Tibet

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295984810
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Margins of Tibet by : Ashild Kolas

Download or read book On the Margins of Tibet written by Ashild Kolas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. Based on fieldwork and interviews conducted between 1998 and 2000 in China's Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures, this book investigates the present conditions of Tibetan cultural life and cultural expression.

Dorje the Yak

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ISBN 13 : 9781732727816
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (278 download)

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Book Synopsis Dorje the Yak by : Caryn Hartman

Download or read book Dorje the Yak written by Caryn Hartman and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Dorje on a journey that ends where it begins: in his heart. Dorje the yak is a tale of triumph over adversity. It is the tale of Dorje's struggle, and the struggle of Tibet, to assert an identity in a quickly changing world.

Art of Tibet

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520051409
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Art of Tibet by : Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Download or read book Art of Tibet written by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Exotic Other and Negotiation of Tibetan Self

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Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
ISBN 13 : 8024439085
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (244 download)

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Book Synopsis The Exotic Other and Negotiation of Tibetan Self by : Kamila Hladíková

Download or read book The Exotic Other and Negotiation of Tibetan Self written by Kamila Hladíková and published by Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines various representations of Tibet in Tibetan and Chinese fiction from the 1980s. With its analysis of some of the first Tibetan short stories published approximately a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution it greatly contributes to the scholarly research of the rise of modern Tibetan literature. The image of Tibet that appears in the works of Tibetan authors is there compared with the Chinese representations of Tibet from the same period. The analysis is informed by postcolonial theories of literature and is focused mainly on the stereotypes that appear in representation of Tibet both in China and in the west. The primary aim of this study is to examine the influence of such stereotypes on Tibetan literary negoitations of their own newly reshaped identity. Studie se zabývá zobrazování Tibetu v tibetské a čínské literatuře o Tibetu z 80. let 20. století. Prostřednictvím analýzy tibetských povídek vznikajících v době počátečního formování moderní tibetské literatury po skončení kulturní revoluce mapuje samotný vznik moderní literatury v Tibetu. Obraz Tibetu, který se objevuje v dílech tibetských autorů, je zde srovnáván s vyobrazením Tibetu v díle čínských autorů tvořících ve stejném období. Analýza vycházející z postkoloniální teorie literatury se zaměřuje především na stereotypy, jež panují v zobrazování Tibetu jak v Číně, tak na Západě, a klade si za cíl posoudit, nakolik tyto stereotypy ovlivňují vlastní představy autorů o "tibetskosti", a nakolik se odrážejí v nově utvářené moderní tibetské identitě.

Where Is Tibet?

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Publisher : Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781559393836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Book Synopsis Where Is Tibet? by : Gina Halpern

Download or read book Where Is Tibet? written by Gina Halpern and published by Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a refugee Tibetan boy and girl as they search for their native Himalayan land.

Bodies in Balance

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295807083
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Bodies in Balance by : Theresia Hofer

Download or read book Bodies in Balance written by Theresia Hofer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art. 2015 Best Art Book Accolade, ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities Category Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and complex system of understanding body and mind, treating illness, and fostering health and well-being. Sowa Rigpa has been influenced by Chinese, Indian, and Greco-Arab medical traditions but is distinct from them. Developed within the context of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine was adapted over centuries to different health needs and climates across the region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Mongolia. Its focus on a holistic approach to health has influenced Western medical thinking about the prevention, diagnoses, and treatment of illness. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art.