Meeting with the XIV Dalai Lama. Environment and Different Cultures with the same Objective of Peace.
Rome: Palazzo Giustiniani. 1993. 23pp, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 159557. More
Tibet
A Survey of Tibet.
Lhasa. Tibet People's Publishing House. 1987. Colour illustrations, 196pp, text in Tibetan and English, bookplate tipped in paste down endpaper, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 156694. More
A Situation Analysis Report on "Girls Trafficking in Sindhupalchowk". Mahankal and Inchowk Village Development Committee.
Katmandu. Agroforestry, Basic Health and Cooperative. (Circa 2000). 23pp, wrappers little light foxing, a good copy otherwise. When referring to this item please quote stockid 160078. More
Medicine between Science and Religion. Explorations on Tibetan Grounds.
New York. Berghahn. 2011. Black and white illustrations, 371pp, bibliography, notes, index, front endpapers a little marked, very good copy in paperback. Epistemologies of Healing. Volume 10. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176434. More
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas. An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1996. Black & white photographic illustrations, xiv + 304pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Paperback covers slightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174714. More
Beyond Lines of Control. Performing Borders in Ladakh, India.
Durham. Duke University Press. 2004. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 305pp, notes, bibliography, index, otherwise a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179299. More
The Song of King Gesar.
Edinburgh. Canongate. 2013. 392pp, slight rubbing on extremities, good paperback copy. "For thousands of years, bards had told the story on the grassland and in farming villages. Jigmed himself had heard it many times - the story of a hero, King Gesar. But they had been poor storytellers, who could..... More
Knowing Dil Das. Stories of a Himalayan Hunter.
Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. xvii + 193pp, index, notes, glossary, a very good paperback copy. "Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. It is also about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where..... More
The Festivals of Nepal.
Calcutta. Rupa. 1988. Reprint. Colour photographic plates, 288pp, bibliography, index, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 148837. More
Profusion de la vaste sphѐre. Klong-chen rab-'byams (Tibet, 1308-1364). Sa vie, son œuvre, sa Doctrine.
Paris. The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. 2007. xix + 706pp, bibliography, indices, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178956. More
In Exile from the Land of Shadows.
London. Joseph. 1984. Endpaper maps, 383pp, index, foxed edges and endpapers, dustjacket little worn, a good hardback copy toherwise. This book is the product of four years travelling through the Tibetan communities of India. When referring to this item please quote stockid 161252. More
The Tibetan Art of Healing.
London. Thames and Hudson. 1997. Preface by Deepak Chopra, reproduced paintings by Romio Shrestha. Many colour illustrations throughout, 192pp, 31 x 23cm, bibliography. Spine faintly sunned but an excellent paperback copy. This book is a practical guide to the search for physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. The Tibetan scholar Ian..... More
The Mummies of Urumchi.
New York. Norton. (c. 1999). Maps, including colour map lower dustjacket cover, black and white illustrations, frontispiece, 16 colour photographic plates, 240pp, notes, bibliography, index, front free endpaper little marked, very good hardback copy. 24 x 18cm. "In the museums of Urumchi, the wind-swept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous..... More
From the Land of Lost Content. The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet.
London. Collins. 1969. Maps, decorative endpapers, 224pp, appendix, bibliography. Dustjacket little worn with few small chips, edges trifle foxed, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174010. More
Resistance and Reform in Tibet.
United Kingdom: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 1994. 20 illustrations, maps, 314pp, appendix, index, small split head of spine, otherwise a good paperback copy. Much writing about Tibet and especially on Tibetan responses to Chinese communist rule has been sentimental and highly polemical. Also, many publications on recent development..... More
Inside the Treasure House. A Time in Tibet.
London. Victor Gollancz. 1990. Map, full-page, photographic colour illustrations, 221pp, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Inside the Treasure House unravels the myth of Tibet, revealing its rich heritage and its modern complexities. It is a moving portrayal of its people, their hopes, their way of life, their memories..... More
In Search of Shambhala.
London. Jonathan Cape. 1996. Reprint. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Colour photographic plates, vii + 264pp, bibliography. Ex library copy with stamps inked, upper edge trifle browned, dustjacket spine sunned, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174020. More
Land of the Snow Lion.
London. Jonathan Cape. (Circa 1987). Maps endpapers, colour photographic illustrations, 328pp, glossary, bibliography, a prior owner's bookplate laid down front free endpaper, dustjacket priceclipped, a very good copy in hardback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 152095. More
Gandhari Dharmapada.
India: Motilal Banarsidass. 2001. 24 black and white photographic plates, xxix + 319 + xxivpp, notes, bibliography, indices, spine of dustjacket a little faded, a good hardback copy. The manuscript, written in the first or second century A.D., is generally considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of an Indian..... More
Precious Treasure, Clay Pot. A Nurse in Nepal.
New Zealand. Self published. 2012. Black and white illustrations, 182pp, minor wear covers otherwise very good in paperback. Inscribed by the author half titlepage. Autobiographical account of a New Zealand nurse who went to work in Nepal and share her Christian faith. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Tragic Spirits. Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia.
Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 2013. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 314pp, notes, glossary, references, index, author inscription half title page, covers little shelf worn with some marks, a good paperback copy. The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes..... More
The Gobi Desert.
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1946. Reprint, same year of publication. 2 maps (1 folding), 3 colour plates, many photographic illustrations, 301pp, some foxing on endpapers, a series of small indentations in the margins of first leaves and a few leaves. Good copy in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on..... More
Mountains of the Gods.
New York. Facts on File. 1984. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 248pp, appendices, bibliography, index, dustjacket spine little sunned, some foxing first leaves, remainder mark lower edge, a good hardback copy. 27 x 20cm. Traces the formation of the Himalayas through to the explorers, scientists and climbers of..... More
On the Edge of the Auspicious. Gender and Caste in Nepal.
Urbana. University of Illinois Press. 1998. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 314pp, index, references, glossary, covers trifle worn, pencilling throughout text, a sound secondhand copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178169. More