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
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
The Cult of Kumari : Virgin Worship in Nepal.
Kathmandu. Tribhuvan University Press. 1975. Black and white illustrations, 67pp, bibliography, foxed covers and endpapers, cover extremities worn, a sound paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 159374. More
Knowing Dil Das. Stories of a Himalayan Hunter.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. First Edition. 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..... 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
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
Three Tibetan Mysteries. Tchrimekundan, Nansal, Djroazanmo. As performed in the Tibetan Monasteries.
Taipei. SMC Publishing. (circa 2004). [Reprint]. Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy. Originally published in 1924, this book contains three traditional Tibetan dramas, the Tchrimekundan, Nansal and Djroazanmo, with an introduction and index for..... 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
Shambhala. The Road Less Travelled in Western Tibet.
Singapore. Marshall Cavendish. 2006. Map, colour photographic illustrations, 181pp, paperback, a very good copy. In Shambhala, Laurence travels to Lhasa, where he obtains an ancient Buddhist scripture entitled Shambhala Sutra, stolen from Tashilumbo Monastery. By following Shambhala Sutra as a road map, Laurence goes on the road to look for..... More
Dreamworld Tibet. Western Illusions.
Thailand. Orchid Press. 2004. First English edition. Black and white and colour illustrations, xii + 284pp, notes, lists, index, sources, a very good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175608. More
Heinrich Harrers Impressionen aus Tibet.
Innsbruck. Pinguin-Verlag. 1974. Foreword by the Dalai Lama in English. Endpaper maps, colour and black & white photographic plates, 244pp, index. Slipcase evenly browned and little worn, a very good hardback copy. Text in German. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174018. 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
The Story of Topsy. Little Lonely of Central Asia.
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1937. Endpaper maps, illustrations, viii + 212pp, bright copy in worn dustjacket with a few closed tears. Very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 2648. More