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  • The Culture of the Book in Tibet

    by Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Tibetan History Reader

    Edited by Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, the collection is both a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Histories of Tibet

    Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

    Edited by Kurtis Schaeffer, William McGrath, Jue Lang ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of Leonard van der Kuijp, whose groundbreaking research in Tibetan intellectual and cultural history imbued his students with an abiding sense of curiosity and discovery.As part of Leonard van der Kuijp’s research in Tibetan history, as he patiently and expertly revealed treasures of the Tibetan intellectual tradition in ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Sources of Tibetan Tradition

    Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    The most comprehensive collection of Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social development of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. Including more than 180 representative writings, Sources of Tibetan Tradition spans Tibet's vast geography and long history, presenting for the first time a diversity ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • My Tibetan Childhood

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    Translated by Angus Cargill, Sonam Lhamo ...
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    by Chögyam Trungpa ...
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