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  In Exile from the Land of Snows di Avedon John

 In breve: E' il testo classico sulla occupazione cinese e sulla ribellione del 1959. Avedon illustra anche i problemi e la fine della resistenza con basi in Dolpo e Mustang.

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  Journey for Peace di Bauer, Manuel

 In breve: In 2005 the first three years of the Pictorial Portrait Project of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama were published in a book thanks to Volkart Foundation | Winterthur, Hamasil Foundation | Zurich and Isuke Wakamatsu | Tokyo.
Published by Koni Nordmann. With essays by Matthieu Ricard and Christian Schmidt in conversations with the Dalai Lama. Published on the occasion of the Dalai Lama’s 70th birthday on July 6, 2005

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  Kailas Historie di McKay Alex

 In breve: Kailas Histories demonstrates how British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests synthesised historically diverse representations to construct the understanding of Tibet’s great pilgrimage centre Mount Kailas - and India’s Gangotri - as ancient

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  Lhasa: Streets with Memories di Barnett Robert

 In breve: Barnett has an artist's eye for detail, and his writing is lush and vivid. The dual narratives struck me at first as an interesting literary device: the scholar describes the city's development from the ground up, while the foreigner sees the superficial and gradually learns to read what's below the surface.

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  Manual of Standard Tibetan di Tournadre Nicolas ; Dorje Sangda

 In breve: Two CDs provide an essential oral complement to the Manual. A detailed introduction presents a linguistic overview of spoken and written Tibetan, and a lengthy appendix outlines the differences between literary and spoken Tibetan

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  Mountain in Tibet di Allen Charles

 In breve: The story of Charles Allen's search for the legendary mountain at the centre of the world culminating in his discovery of the West Tibetan mountain, Kailas.

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  Mountains of the Middle Kingdom di Rowell Galen

 In breve: Chi non conosce questa fotografia? la cartolina ricavatane l'ho usata per ricordare la spedizione al Kailash, 1994, sulle orme di Giuseppe Tucci, nel centennario della nascita.
"In this magnificent book the text becomes a moving counterpoint to photographs .... The ragged, gleaming peaks of the Himalayas are captured with an ultimate realism, as if a window had opened on the page, and we ourselves were peering through it .... This is a breaking free, a testimony to the Earth's original, untameable wildness."
New York Times Book Review

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  My Journey to Lhasa di David Néel Alexandra

 In breve: First published in 1927, "My Journey to Lhasa" tells of the first Western woman to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa and to have been received by the Dalai Lama. Map.

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  Samye di Dunham Mikel

 In breve: Nestled deep in the "Land of Snow" stands Samye, the monastery where Buddhism took root in Tibet. Stunning photography and compelling text transport readers to a sacred place where only a few pilgrims have set foot. That Samye still exists is nothing short of a miracle.

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  Shambhala di Roerich Nicholas

 In breve: "Over the snowy peaks of the Himalayas burns a bright glow, brighter than stars and the fantastic flashes of lightning. Who has kindled those pillars of light, which march across the heavens? The polar and mid-night regions are not near. The northern lights cannot glimmer in the Himalayas. Not from the Northern scintillations are these pillars of light. They come from Shambhala; from the Tower of the Great Coming One."

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  The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo di Gruschke Andreas

 In breve: The Qinghai Part of Amdo is the first of two volumes presenting the fascinating world of northeast Tibet's historical and cultural monuments.

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  The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo - vol 2 di Gruschke Andreas

 In breve: The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo reveals that Tibetans have rebuilt their economy and revitalized their traditional way of life. Despite Tibet being an issue, east Tibet has not until now been thoroughly researched, though it comprises about two thirds of the Tibetan Plateau. It is astounding, therefore, that the West knows hardly anything about it

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  The Dalai Lamas di Martin Brauen

 In breve: The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History presents the history of all fourteen Dalai Lamas in both essays and illustrations. Sixteen contributors from around the world illuminate the institution of the Dalai Lama, including the system of reincarnation; the biographies and religious training of each Dalai Lama; their relationship to religious schools, other lineages, regents, and the Panchen Lamas; their religious and political interconnections with surrounding countries; and their more recent interactions with Russia, Europe, and America.

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  The Dragon in the Land of Snows di Tsering Shakya

 In breve: Con una documentazione completa, Shakya descrive nei dettagli le depredazioni cinesi del Tibet e rivela i fallimenti delle strategie divise della leadership tibetana. Elevandosi al di sopra del semplicistico dualismo così spesso riscontrato nei resoconti della controversa storia recente del Tibet, The Dragon in the Land of Snows descrive lucidamente la tragedia che ha colpito il Tibet e identifica le forze contrastanti che continuano a plasmare le aspirazioni del popolo tibetano oggi.

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  The Power-places of Central Tibet di Dowman Keith

 In breve: I spent the summers of 1985-87 wandering about Central Tibet visiting the pilgrimage destinations mentioned by the august Khampa pilgrim Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, in his Tibetan guidebook. This book is the result of that arduous trip in which trekking, hitch-hiking, tractor rides, horse riding and even a goat ride all moved me on. During those years rebuilding of the gompas was progressing fast and althought the desolation of the ruins and paranoia of the people was still evident it was an exciting time to be in Tibet

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