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Author : Charles Poynton
Publisher : Charles Poynton
ISBN 13 : 0473148013
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (731 download)
Download or read book An Accidental Journey Through Tibet written by Charles Poynton and published by Charles Poynton. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dinty W. Moore
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128516
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The Accidental Buddhist written by Dinty W. Moore and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ACCIDENTAL BUDDHIST is the funny, provocative story of how Dinty Moore went looking for the faith he'd lost in what might seem the most unlikely of places: the ancient Eastern tradition of Buddhism. Moore demystifies and explains the contradictions and concepts of this most mystic-seeming of religious traditions. This plain-spoken, insightful look at the dharma in America will fascinate anyone curious about the wisdom of other cultures and other religions. "Sure of foot in complex terrain, and packing a blessedly down-to-earth sense of humor, Dinty Moore is the perfect scout for the new frontiers of American Buddhism."--Rodger Kamenetz, author of THE JEW IN THE LOTUS and STALKING ELIJAH.
Author : Deepa Agarwal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184758472
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Caravan to Tibet written by Deepa Agarwal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Blake Kerr
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559397241
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Sky Burial written by Blake Kerr and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a riveting firsthand account by Blake Kerr, an American doctor who inadvertently walked into one of the grimmest scenes of political oppression in the world. Kerr was visiting Tibet with his old college friend John Ackerly. They were enjoying the sights and sounds of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and hitchhiking to Everest, where they "humped loads" for an American expedition assaulting the mountain. Upon returning to Lhasa, Kerr and Ackerly witnessed a series of demonstrations by Tibetan monks greater than anything witnessed by foreigners since China entered Tibet in 1949.
Author : Peter Sís
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781865081571
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Tibet written by Peter Sís and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most brilliant illustrators of our time takes us on a magical journey into his father's past in the once hidden kingdom of Tibet.
Author : Douglas Wissing
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466892242
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Pioneer in Tibet written by Douglas Wissing and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary and explorer who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. During the Great Game era, the Sheltons' sprawling station in Kham was the most remote and dangerous mission on earth. Raising his family in a land of banditry and civil war, caught between a weak Chinese government and the British Raj, Shelton proved to be a resourceful frontiersman. One of the West's first interpreters of Tibetan culture, during the course of his work in Tibet, he was praised by the Western press as a family man, revered doctor, respected diplomat, and fearless adventurer. To the American public, Dr. Albert Shelton was Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp, and the apostle Paul on a new frontier. Driven by his goal of setting up a medical mission within Lhasa, the seat of the Dalai Lama and a city off-limits to Westerners for hundreds of years, Shelton acted as a valued go-between for the Tibetans and Chinese. Recognizing his work, the Dalai Lama issued Shelton an invitation to Lhasa. Tragically, while finalizing his entry, Shelton was shot to death on a remote mountain trail in the Himalayas. Set against the exciting history of early twentieth century Tibet and China, Pioneer in Tibet offers a window into the life of a dying breed of adventurer.
Author : Alison Wright
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594630460
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Learning to Breathe written by Alison Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wright offers this searing and uplifting account of her spiritual journey that begins with her surviving a terrible accident to her triumphant ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069385X
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Author : Oscar Terry Crosby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tibet and Turkestan written by Oscar Terry Crosby and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. F. Johnston
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736406150
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book From Peking to Mandalay - Journey from China to Buough Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan written by R. F. Johnston and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans, and to acquire some knowledge of the various tribes subject to China that inhabit the wild regions of Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. Though nearly every part of the Eighteen Provinces has in recent years been visited and described by European travellers, my route between Tachienlu and Li-chiang was one which—so far as I am aware—no British subject had ever traversed before me, and of which no description in book-form has hitherto appeared in any European language. From the ethnological point of view the Chinese Far West—to which the greater part of this book is devoted—is one of the most interesting regions in the world, and presents problems the solution of which would settle many of the vexed questions relating to the origin and inter-relations of the Asiatic peoples. As for its geographical interest, it may be sufficient to say here that the principalities of Chala and Muli contain what are probably the highest spots inhabited by man on the face of the globe, and that several of the passes crossed by my little caravan are loftier than the highest of the passes existing along the route traversed by the British expedition to Lhasa. My own contributions to geographical and ethnological lore are of the slenderest; but if I can persuade some of my readers that Tibetan Ssuch'uan and western Yunnan are worth visiting, be it only for the glory of their mountain scenery, I shall consider that my book has fulfilled the most useful purpose to which it aspires.
Author : Marylin M. Rhie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Wisdom and Compassion written by Marylin M. Rhie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi . This book was released on 1950-01-22 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.From July 3 ,1949,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 22-01-1950 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 67 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XV. No. 4. BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 19-30, 32-43, 45-56, 58-64 ARTICLE: 1. "We Must Produce Enough Food For All The Millions Who Inhabit India by 1951" 2. India And The ILO 3. The Secular State 4. My Recent Adventure In Tibet 5. Hindi 6. Dance, Poetry And Painting 7. Vital Statistics 8. Finishing For Compliments 9. The Role Of The Fao 10. Nursing As A Career AUTHOR: 1. Jawaharlal Nehru 2. David A. Morse 3. Mr. G. V. Mavalankar 4. Lowell Thomas 5. Mr. G. S. Gupta 6. R. V. Leyden 7. T. V. Ramamurthi 8. A. R. Dawood 9. Dr. radha Kamal Mukerji 10. Katherine Watt KEYWORDS: 1. National Prosperity of India, Prime Miinister, Ferguson System 2. Indian labour and social justice, and Ministry of Labour 3. Religious ignorance and bigotry, Constitutional provisions for minorities 4. Radio broadcast from Tibet, Diifulty in reaching Tibet 5. Regional Languages, Multilingual state 6. Art exhibitions in Bombay, Cultural performances in Bombay 7. Human mind and statistics, Reliability of tatistics 8. Desire for receiving compliments, Compliments and flattery 9. Global food shortage, Improved methods of food production 10. Nursing and patient welfare, Need for trained nurses Document ID: INL-1950 (J-M) Vol-I (04)
Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thierry Dodin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861711912
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Imagining Tibet written by Thierry Dodin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land with an enlightened society now ravaged by outside aggression. How and why did our perception change? How accurate are our modern conceptions of Tibet? Imagining Tibet is a collection of essays that reveal these Western conceptions. Providing an historical background to the West's ever-changing relationship with Tibet, Donald Lopez, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jamyang Norbu, and other noted scholars explore a variety of topics - from Western perceptions of Tibetan approaches to violence, monastic life, and life as a nation in exile, to representations of Tibet in Western literature, art, environmentalism, and the New Age movement.
Author : Sylvain Tesson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593296281
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Art of Patience written by Sylvain Tesson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planet Adventurer Sylvain Tesson has led a restless life, riding across Central Asia on horseback, freeclimbing the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, and traversing the Himalayas by foot. But while recovering from an accident that left him in a coma, and nursing his wounds from a lost love, he found himself domesticated, his lust for life draining with each moment spent staring at a screen. An expedition to the mountains of Tibet, in search of the famously elusive snow leopard, presented itself as a cure. For the chance to glimpse this near mythical beast, Tesson and his companions must wait for hours without making a sound or a movement, enduring the thin air and brutal cold. Their vigil becomes an act of faith--many have pursued the snow leopard for years without seeing it--and as they keep their watch, Tesson comes to embrace the virtues of patience and silence. His faith is rewarded when the snow leopard, the spirit of the mountain, reveals itself: an embodiment of what we have surrendered in our contemporary lives. And the simple act of waiting proves to be an antidote to the frenzy of our times. A celebration of the power and grace of the wild, and a requiem for the world's vanishing places, The Art of Patience is a revelatory account of the communion between nature and the human heart. Sylvain Tesson has written a new masterpiece on the relationship between man and beast in prose as sublime as the wilderness that inspired it.
Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834840103
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Coming Home to Tibet written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother and a homeland that she knew little about. Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.
Author : August Friedrich Rudolf Hoernle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Manuscript Remains of Buddhist Literature Found in Eastern Tukestan written by August Friedrich Rudolf Hoernle and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
