Lhasa Apso
The name Lhasa Apso literally means terrier of Tibet (Lhasa is the capital of Tibet). They are also called the lion dog of Tibet. There are three dog breeds that have their origin in Tibet. As well the Lhasa Apso, there is also the Shih-tzu and ... [... more]
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Qinghai Tibet Railway part one
The railway runs from Qinghai to Tibet and is the world's highest. Trains were specially built to handle the altitude. Tanggula Pass is the world's highest rail track at 5,072 metres. The 1,338 metre Fenghuoshan Tunnel is 4,905 metres above sea ... [... more]
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Vicki Croke
The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to ... [... more]
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Frank Kingdon Ward
During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of ... [... more]
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Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman, acclaimed translator of , heads the Department of Religion at Columbia University and is the director of the Center for Buddhist Studies. He is a friend of the Dalai Lama's, president of Tibet House in New York City, and one of ... [... more]
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Circling the Sacred Mountain
Circling the Sacred Mountain A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas Robert Thurman and Tad Wise is a remarkable account of spiritual adventure through the magical and forbidding landscape of remote western Tibet. A promise of spiritual ... [... more]
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Tom Christopher
During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of ... [... more]
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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth's previous books include three poetry collections, a libretto, the travel memoir After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. . Born in ... [... more]
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The Descent
In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth...In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali ... [... more]
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Dalai Lama
Born in 1935 into a farming family in northeastern Tibet, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was recognized early in his life as a reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. By age four, he was enthroned in Lhasa. During the 1950s, the political ... [... more]
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Patrick French
Patrick French was born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Younghusband, Liberty or Death and Tibet, Tibet, and is a winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society ... [... more]
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Yeshe Tsogyal
In English for the first time is the complete story of how Buddhism was planted in Tibet. The Lotus-Born is a translation of a biography that was concealed as terma treasure-as protection from the changes of time-and revealed centuries later ba a ... [... more]
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