Tibet | Asian History Books

The Epic of Gesar of Ling: Gesar’s Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King

March 25, 2015

The Gesar of Ling epic is the Tibetan equivalent of The Arabian Nights. For hundreds of years, versions of it have been known in oral and written form in Tibet, China, Central Asia, and across the eastern Silk Route. King Gesar, renowned throughout these areas, represents the ideal warrior. As a leader with his people’s […]
Sky Dancer: The Secret Life And Songs Of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

March 25, 2015

Yeshe Tsogyel, consort of Guru Padmasambhava, is the most famous of the enlightened women of Tibet. Women have a special place in tantra, but except for Sky Dancer there are few writings that present the spiritual practices and evolution of female aspirants. Here women are in an eminent position, and a path of practice is […]
Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community

March 25, 2015

In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet’s government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama’s presence lends Dharamsala’s Tibetans a feeling of being “in place,” but at the same time they have […]
The Star Spangled Buddhist: Zen, Tibetan, and Soka Gakkai Buddhism and the Quest for Enlightenment in America

March 25, 2015

Approximately four million Americans claim to be Buddhist. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Americans of various faiths read about Buddhism, are interested in its philosophical tenets, or fashionably view themselves as Buddhists. They’re part of what’s been described as the fastest-growing religious movement in America: a large group of people dissatisfied with traditional religious offerings […]
The Voice that Remembers: One Woman’s Historic Fight to Free Tibet

March 22, 2015

When Adhe Tapontsang–or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known–left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let the truth […]
Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan

March 22, 2015

Buddhism has been influential in the mountain kingdoms of the Himalayas since the 7th century AD, most notably in the kingdom of Tibet where it permeated all aspects and levels of society until the 20th century. From the 9th-century AD onwards, the secular rulers of Tibet sought to extend their influence, and that of Buddhism, […]
Buddha’s Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet

March 22, 2015

Buddha’s Warriors is the first book that brings to life Tibet before the Chinese communist invasions and depicts the transition of peaceful monks to warriors with the help of the CIA. Tibet in the last sixty years has been so much mystified and politicized that the world at large is confused about what really happened […]
In Exile from the Land of Snows: The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest

March 22, 2015

Now considered a classic, this is an eloquent and compellingly told account of the Dalai Lama’s exile from Tibet after its conquest by China. Sale Price:$8.25 0060977418
Secret Tibet (Panther)

March 22, 2015

In this book, Fosco Maraini recounts his travels to Tibet in 1939 and 1948, before it fell to China. He brings back to life a world which will never be seen again. In the tradition of Italian travellers from the days of Marco Polo, Maraini went to Tibet to learn, to understand, to give, and […]
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood

March 22, 2015

The Dalai Lama meets The Player-from the Himalayas to Hollywood, a fantastic journey into the West’s longstanding dream of Tibet.What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real celebrity, the Dalai Lama, so abidingly fascinating to the West? From Marco Polo’s vision of Tibet as a land of enchanters to James Hilton’s dream of […]

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