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The Power Of Publishing In Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism

by Benjamin J. Nourse

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 This book explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the â€œgolden ageâ€ of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also examines the Mahayana Buddhist ideas that motivated the growth of early modern woodblock publishing and the religious use of books during that period.
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Chieftains, Lamas, And Warriors - A History Of Kham, 1904-1961

by Yudru Tsomu

~~133,56€~~ 120,20€ 10% OFF

 This book challenges traditional views that see Kham as a transit point and instead repositions the region as pivotal to Sino-Tibetan relations. Informed by frontier studies and drawing from original sources to reassess its importance in early twentieth-century politics and narratives, it examines Khamâ€™s identity amidst assimilation pressures.
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The Life Of The Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje - Transmitting The Dharma In Exile

by Meng Wang

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 This book examines the life of the Sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.
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Chieftains, Lamas, And Warriors - A History Of Kham, 1904â€“1961

by Yudru Tsomu

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 This book challenges traditional views that see Kham as a transit point and instead repositions the region as pivotal to Sino-Tibetan relations. Informed by frontier studies and drawing from original sources to reassess its importance in early twentieth-century politics and narratives, it examines Khamâ€™s identity amidst assimilation pressures.
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The Life And Times Of George Tsarong Of Tibet, 1920â€“1970 - A Lord Of The Traditional Tibetan State

by Paljor Tsarong

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 This book examines the life of an aristocrat official of the traditional precapitalist Tibetan state. The author analyzes his education, civil service career, and political intrigues as well as the fall of the state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation and exile.
The Life Of The Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje - Transmitting The Dharma In Exile

by Meng Wang

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 This book examines the life of the sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.
Tibet As I Knew It - The Memoir Of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

by Tsewang Yishey Pemba

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 This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author's formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.
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Tibet As I Knew It - The Memoir Of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

by Tsewang Yishey Pemba

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author's formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.
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Life Of The Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje - Transmitting The Dharma In Exile

by Meng Wang

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 This book examines the life of the sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.
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Oral And Literary Continuities In Modern Tibetan Literature - The Inescapable Nation

by Lama Jabb

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 This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibetâ€™s oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.
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Muslims In Amdo Tibetan Society - Multidisciplinary Approaches

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 This book examines the role of Muslims in Amdo society. The contributors challenge established stereotypes of Tibetanâ€"Muslim relations and explore historical, socio-economic, political, religious, and linguistic aspects of Tibetan, Muslim, and Chinese interactions in this borderland region.
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Life And Times Of George Tsarong Of Tibet, 1920-1970 - A Lord Of The Traditional Tibetan State

by Paljor Tsarong

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 This book examines the life of an aristocrat official of the traditional precapitalist Tibetan state. The author analyzes his education, civil service career, and political intrigues as well as the fall of the state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation and exile.
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The Life And Times Of George Tsarong Of Tibet, 1920â€“1970 - A Lord Of The Traditional Tibetan State

by Paljor Tsarong

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 This book examines the life of an aristocrat official of the traditional precapitalist Tibetan state. The author analyzes his education, civil service career, and political intrigues as well as the fall of the state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation and exile.
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Colombia'S Political Economy At The Outset Of The Twenty-First Century - From Uribe To Santos And Beyond

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 In this volume a group of leading experts examines Colombia's political economy at the beginning of the twenty-first century, exploring various issues such as, drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today.
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Tibetan Subjectivities On The Global Stage - Negotiating Dispossession

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 Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, and development. Drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, this book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity.
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Muslims In Amdo Tibetan Society - Multidisciplinary Approaches

51,26€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines the role of Muslims in Amdo society. The contributors challenge established stereotypes of Tibetanâ€"Muslim relations and explore historical, socio-economic, political, religious, and linguistic aspects of Tibetan, Muslim, and Chinese interactions in this borderland region.
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Tibetan Environmentalists In China - The King Of Dzi

by Liu Jianqiang

131,18€ + 10% CARD

 In weaving together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection, this book shows Tibetans as both products of an admirable culture and as complex individuals negotiating religious ideals, economic change, and sociopolitical constraints. In short, it opens up a whole new way of understanding Tibet.
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Oral And Literary Continuities In Modern Tibetan Literature - The Inescapable Nation

by Lama Jabb

47,69€ + 10% CARD

 This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibetâ€™s oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.
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Tibetan Environmentalists In China - The King Of Dzi

by Liu Jianqiang

148,71€ + 10% CARD

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 In weaving together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection, this book shows Tibetans as both products of an admirable culture and as complex individuals negotiating religious ideals, economic change, and sociopolitical constraints. In short, it opens up a whole new way of understanding Tibet.
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Rise Of Gonpo Namgyel In Kham - The Blind Warrior Of Nyarong

by Yudru Tsomu

155,03€ + 10% CARD

 This book presents a case study of the ascendancy of GÃ¶npo Namgyel, a minor Tibetan chieftain in Kham who had a great impact on Sino-Tibetan relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Oral And Literary Continuities In Modern Tibetan Literature - The Inescapable Nation

by Lama Jabb

148,71€ + 10% CARD

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 This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibetâ€™s oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.
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Social Life Of Tibetan Biography - Textuality, Community, And Authority In The Lineage Of Tokden Shakya Shri

by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

131,18€ + 10% CARD

 The Social Life of Tibetan Biography outlines the growth of the Buddhist tradition of the Tibetan teacher Tokden Shakya Shri (1853-1919) through charting his biographical tradition and its influence on the development of his community. Tokden Shakya Shri's tradition is an impo...
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The Rise Of Gonpo Namgyel In Kham - The Blind Warrior Of Nyarong

by Yudru Tsomu

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 This book presents a case study of the ascendancy of GÃ¶npo Namgyel, a minor Tibetan chieftain in Kham who had a great impact on Sino-Tibetan relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Disempowered Development Of Tibet In China - A Study In The Economics Of Marginalization

by Andrew Martin Fischer

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 Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture, Lexington Books Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Since the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and living standards have improved. However, grievances and protests have also intensified, as dramatically evidenced by the protests that spread across most Tibetan areas in spring 2008 and by the more recent wave of self-immolation protests that started in 2011. This book offers a detailed and careful exploration of this synergy between development and conflict in Tibet from the mid-1990s onwards, when rapid economic growth has occurred in tandem with a particularly assimilationist approach of integrating Tibet into China. Fischer argues that the intensified economic integration of Tibet into regional and national development strategies on these assimilationist terms, within a context of continued political disempowerment, and through the massive channeling of subsidies through Han Chinese dominated entities based outside the Tibetan areas, has accentuated various dynamics of subordination and marginalization faced by Tibetans of all social strata. Whether or not these dynamics are intended to be discriminatory, they effectively accentuate the discriminatory, assimilationist and disempowering characteristics of development, even while producing considerable improvements in the material consumption of local Tibetans. In particular, strong cultural, linguistic and political biases intensify ethnically-exclusionary dynamics among middle and upper strata of the Tibetan labor force, which is problematic considering the rapid shift of Tibetans out of agriculture and towards the highly subsidy-dependent sectors of the economy, especially in urban areas. The combination of these disempowering dynamics with the sheer speed of dislocating and disembedding social change provides important insights into recent tensions given that it has accentuated insecurity while restricting the ability of Tibetan communities to adapt in autonomous and self-determined ways. The study represents one of the only macro-level and systemic analyses of its kind in the scholarship on Tibet, based on accessible economic analysis and extensive interdisciplinary fieldwork. It also carries much interest for those interested in China and in the interactions between development, inequality, exclusion and conflict more generally.
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