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  • The Culture of the Book in Tibet

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Tibetan History Reader

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Histories of Tibet

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

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Sources of Tibetan Tradition

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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    China and the World Since 1750

    de Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Leer más

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  • My Tibetan Childhood

    When Ice Shattered Stone

    de Naktsang Nulo ...
    Traducido por Angus Cargill, Sonam Lhamo ...
    In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Path of Individual Liberation

    The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One

    de Chögyam Trungpa ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma
    The foundational teachings of Buddhism—presented here in volume one of Chögyam Trungpa's magnum opus, which offers a systematic overview of the entire path of Tibetan BuddhismThis three-volume collection presents in lively, relevant language the comprehensive teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist path of the hinayana, mahayana, and vajrayana. Considered Chögyam Trungpa’s masterpiece, The Profound ... Leer más

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  • The Terra Cotta Army

    China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation

    de John Man ...
    "A virtuoso historical investigation" of the discovery and history of the sculptures of the first emperor of China's army ( Kirkus Reviews) .The Terra Cotta Army is an account of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China'and each figure was individually carved ... Leer más

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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    de Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Leer más

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  • Six Records of a Floating Life

    de Shen Fu ...
    Traducido por Leonard Pratt, Chiang Su-hui ...
    Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes ... Leer más

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  • China Wakes

    The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

    de Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky."Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. ... Leer más

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