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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£18.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783785704 | ISBN 10: 1783785705
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance, defining the country today. In Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan tragedy ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780300194104 | ISBN 10: 0300194102
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. ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780822347712 | ISBN 10: 0822347717
In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and th ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844670437 | ISBN 10: 1844670430
Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet. China’s decades-long repression of Tibetan independence continues on as its global economic power continues to grow. In response to the former and despite ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007265121 | ISBN 10: 0007265123
Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism. Accompanied by a television crew, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there. Despit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780861715176 | ISBN 10: 0861715179
At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture deep into Mustang, an ethnically Tibetan area of Nepal, in the rainshadow of the Himalayas. As an equestrian and a buddhing anthropologist, she sought not only to understand what it was like to rely on ... more
View book details£30.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843541455 | ISBN 10: 1843541459
This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tibet. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird had eighteen personal audiences with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, intimate intervie ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780586087077 | ISBN 10: 0586087079
Imprisoned in India by the British when WWII was declared, Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer escaped, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, he became the tutor and friend of the present Dalai Lama in this classic of a ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747568711 | ISBN 10: 0747568715
In January 2000, a taxi twisted its way up the narrow road leading towards Dharamsala in Northern India - the home-in-exile of the Dalai Lama. Inside was a fourteen-year-old boy, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, whose arrival was the culmination of a thrilli ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099461937 | ISBN 10: 0099461935
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wen, a Chinese woman who ... more
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