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Colliding Continents: A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet

March 22, 2015

The Himalaya is the greatest mountain range on Earth: the highest, longest, youngest, the most tectonically active, and the most spectacular of all. Unimaginable geological forces created these spectacular peaks. Indeed, the crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, giving birth to the Himalaya and Karakoram, one […]
Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantirc Buddhism of Tibet

March 22, 2015

This book provides an entrée into the Tantric (or Vajrayana) Buddhism of Tibet, as conveyed by Tibetan masters teaching in the West, and as received by their Western students. The Tantric tradition is a unique collection of lesser-known texts, concepts, and meditation practices that are usually made available only to experienced and specially initiated practitioners. […]
Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

March 22, 2015

Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples’ uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama’s summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two […]
Three Visions: Fundamental Teachings Of The Sakya Lineage Of Tibetan Buddhism

March 22, 2015

The most profound and fundamental teaching of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism is that of the Path Including Its Result. This unique teaching of Virupa, one of India’s extraordinary Mahasiddhas, covers the entire Buddhist path from the time of entering the spiritual discipline up to the attainment of full and perfect enlightenment. It serves […]
Tibet, Tibet

March 22, 2015

At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history, agitated for its freedom, […]
The Book of Wisdom: The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism. Commentaries on Atisha’s Seven Points of Mind Training

March 22, 2015

Osho is known around the world for his pioneering contribution to meditation — the science of inner transformation — with the unique approach of his “Osho Active Meditations” acknowledging the accelerated pace of the contemporary world and bringing meditation into modern life. Based on the Seven Points of Mind Training by the 11th-century Buddhist mystic […]
Tibet: A History

March 22, 2015

Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.Sam van Schaik brings the history of Tibet to life by telling the stories of the people involved, from […]
Tibet Since 1950: Silence, Prison or Exile

March 22, 2015

Through a diverse selection of photographs, personal interviews, and historical information, Tibet Since 1950: Silence, Prison, or Exile, a collaboration between Aperture and Human Rights Watch, looks beyond the Shangri-la image of Tibet to the impact of political repression by the Chinese government on Tibetan lives.The Tibet Autonomous Region as well as the area known […]
A Hundred Thousand White Stones: An Ordinary Tibetan’s Extraordinary Journey

March 22, 2015

A Hundred Thousand White Stones is one young Tibetan woman’s fearlessly told story of longing and change. Kunsang Dolma writes with unvarnished candor of the hardships she experienced as a girl in Tibet, violations as a refugee nun in India, and struggles as an immigrant and new mother in America. Yet even in tribulation, she […]
Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival

March 22, 2015

The secret war for Tibet, told by the CIA veteran who helped run American covert operations to support the Tibetan resistance and the Dalai Lama.. For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. These operations have never been discloseduntil […]

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