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The Yakha: Culture, Environment and Development in East Nepal
Creator’s Description: This is a social anthropological study of a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group, the Yakha, based in East Nepal. The field research involved was carried out from January 1989 u...
Warrior Gentlemen: “Gurkhas” in the Western Imagination
Creator’s Description: In recent years there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples are depicted in the literatures of the West. This study eschews the tendency to regard virt...
Warrior Gentlemen: “Gurkhas” in the Western Imagination
Creator’s Description: In recent years there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples are depicted in the literatures of the West. This study eschews the tendency to regard virt...
Shadow Tibet: Jamyang Norbu’s Blog
Tibetan author and intellectual Jamyang Norbu’s blog.
The Early History of Tibet. From Chinese Sources
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Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings
Creator's Description: this book is an introduction to Buddhist thought and practice in Tibet through the window of Mipam ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912). This book was written with undergr...
Maps of Wutai Shan: Individuating the Sacred Landscape through Color
Creator's Description: This essay considers the practice of coloring Buddhist sacred maps by comparing two hand-colored xylographs of Wutai shan derived from the same set of woodblocks that wer...
Tibetan Poetry on Wutai Shan
Creator's Description: Throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries authors from the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism composed numerous poems on Five-Peaked Mountain (Wutai shan)....
Ascetics in Western Nepal
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The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet
This book is a traditional description of the lives of the first through sixteenth Karmapas, written by the Fourth Karma Thinleypa of the Karma bKa' brgyud tradition. The hagiographies are replete wit...
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