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མི་ལོ་ལྔ་བཅུའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ཞབས་ཞུ། ༄༅། །བཞུགས་སྒར་གཞན་ཕན་བདེ་ལེགས་སྨན་ཁང་གི་མི་ལོ་ལྔ་བཅུའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ཞབས་ཞུའི་སྙན་སྒྲོན་འདི་ནི་སྐྱེས་བུ་སྒེར་ལ་མཚོན་ན་རྣམ་ཀུན་ང་ཚོས་ཐེག་པ་རིམ་འཛེགས་བཤད་པ་བཞིན་བདེ་ལེགས་སྨན་ཁང་འཛུགས...
This volume presents a variety of data and reflection on the history of Tibetan women. Drawing on textual and archival study, ethnographic research, the history of religions, and feminist theory, the contributors explore the struggles and accomplishments of women from Tibet, including queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of mediaeval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, doctors and artists.
An illustrated history of 50 years of mountaineering on Mount Everest, with photographs from the collection of the Royal Geographic Society.
One of the world's spiritual leaders and a renowned wilderness photographer combine their vision of Tibet in this stunningly beautiful book. Essays by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama appear with Galen Rowell's dramatic images in a moving presentation of the splendors of Tibet's revered but threatened heritage. When Chinese communist troops invaded Tibet in 1950, the author was fifteen years old and the spiritual and temporal ruler of a nation the size of western Europe. Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, appealed to the United Nations for help and then fled across the Himalaya in winter to a border town, where he anxiously awaited political aid that never came. Like the mythical ki...
"The product of twelve years of research and eight more of mapmaking, A Historical Atlas of Tibet documents cultural and religious sites across the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering regions from the Paleolithic and Neolithic times all the way up to today. It ranges through the five main periods in Tibetan history, offering introductory maps of each followed by details of western, central, and eastern regions. It visualizes the history of Tibetan Buddhism, tracing its spread throughout Asia, with thousands of temples mapped, both within Tibet and across North China and Mongolia, all the way to Beijing. There are maps of major polities and their territorial administrations, as well as of the kingdoms of Guge and Purang in western Tibet, and of Derge and Nangchen in Kham. There are town plans of Lhasa and maps that focus on history and language, on population, natural resources, and contemporary politics."--Excerpted from jacket blurb.
The story of Ed Webster's 5 years on and off of Everest.