Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture – serie
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21 produkter
Nine-Eyed Agate
Poems and Stories
Av Jangbu, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2010
1466 kr
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The Nine-Eyed Agate seeks to break stereotyped images of Tibet and Tibetans inside the PRC today, and in the diaspora, by presenting an outstanding personality who survived childhood during the Cultural Revolution, then going on to lead a rich and somewhat controversial career within the PRC. As a …
Disempowered Development of Tibet in China
A Study in the Economics of Marginalization
Av Andrew Martin Fischer, Gray Tuttle
Häftad, 2013
877 kr
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Series:Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture, Lexington BooksWeatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversitySince the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and living …
Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Av Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2011
1428 kr
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The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a …
Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Av Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé, Gray Tuttle
Häftad, 2011
650 kr
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The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a …
Labrang Monastery
A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958
Av Paul Kocot Nietupski, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2010
1603 kr
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The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to …
Social Life of Tibetan Biography
Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri
Av Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2014
1652 kr
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The Social Life of Tibetan Biography explores the creation of Tibetan religious authority in Tibetan cultural areas throughout East, Inner, and South Asia through engaging with the relationship between textual biography and social community in the case of the Eastern Tibetan yogi Tokden Shakya Shri …
Rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham
The Blind Warrior of Nyarong
Inbunden, 2014
1893 kr
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This book examines the ascendancy of a minor nineteenth-century Tibetan chieftain Gönpo Namgyel who hailed from Eastern Kham, a frontier region situated between the power centers of Central Tibet and Qing China. For most of the nineteenth century, Gönpo Namgyel dominated the politics of Kham and …
Tibetan Environmentalists in China
The King of Dzi
Inbunden, 2015
1603 kr
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This book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection (as well as a host of secondary characters): Tashi Dorje, a well-known and celebrated environmentalist; Karma Samdrup, a philanthropist, businessman, and environmentalist; …
Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature
The Inescapable Nation
Av Lama Jabb, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2015
1790 kr
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This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of “birth” and presents this period as marking a “rupture” with traditional forms of …
Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature
The Inescapable Nation
Av Lama Jabb, Gray Tuttle
Häftad, 2019
656 kr
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This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of “birth” and presents this period as marking a “rupture” with traditional forms of …
Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Av Marie-Paule Hille, Bianca Horlemann m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
631 kr
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Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches offers nine case studies from several academic disciplines. The chapters describe the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity within the Muslim communities of Amdo and illustrate complex social interactions with other Amdo …
Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage
Negotiating Dispossession
Av Shelly Bhoil, Enrique Galvan-Alvarez
Inbunden, 2018
1275 kr
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Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments taking place in Tibet and the diaspora, this collection of essays addresses a …
Tibet as I Knew It
The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
Inbunden, 2022
1240 kr
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Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the …
Tibet as I Knew It
The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
Av Tsewang Yishey Pemba, Gray Tuttle
Häftad, 2025
456 kr
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Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the …
Life of the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Transmitting the Dharma in Exile
Av Meng Wang, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2022
1415 kr
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The Sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, was the first Tibetan Buddhist leader to make extensive teaching tours to the West. His three tours to Europe and North America from 1974 to 1980 led to the global expansion of Tibetan Buddhist schools. This book presents the most in-depth analysis of …
Life of the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Transmitting the Dharma in Exile
Av Meng Wang, Gray Tuttle
Häftad, 2025
500 kr
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The Sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, was the first Tibetan Buddhist leader to make extensive teaching tours to the West. His three tours to Europe and North America from 1974 to 1980 led to the global expansion of Tibetan Buddhist schools. This book presents the most in-depth analysis of …
Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism
Av Benjamin J. Nourse, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2025
1246 kr
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The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism explores the historical and religious dynamics that led to the “golden age” of Tibetan printing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Tibetan woodblock publishing reached its zenith. By tracing the publication and circulation …
Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors
A History of Kham, 1904–1961
Inbunden, 2024
1632 kr
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Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham 1904–1961 explores the region of Kham, situated between Central Tibet and China. By highlighting Kham’s pivotal role in Sino-Tibetan relations and frontier dynamics, this book challenges the traditional focus of scholarly research that treat Kham …
Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors
A History of Kham, 1904–1961
Häftad, 2026
714 kr
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Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham 1904–1961 explores the region of Kham, situated between Central Tibet and China. By highlighting Kham’s pivotal role in Sino-Tibetan relations and frontier dynamics, this book challenges the traditional focus of scholarly research that treat Kham …
Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920–1970
A Lord of the Traditional Tibetan State
Av Paljor Tsarong, Gray Tuttle
Inbunden, 2022
1652 kr
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Centuries have passed since the demise of many precapitalist agricultural states. Despite the British invasion of 1903 and the Chinese invasion in 1950, the Tibetan state continued to fully function until 1959. For this reason, this biography of George Tsarong not only provides new and in-depth …
Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920–1970
A Lord of the Traditional Tibetan State
Av Paljor Tsarong, Gray Tuttle
Häftad, 2023
560 kr
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Centuries have passed since the demise of many precapitalist agricultural states. Despite the British invasion of 1903 and the Chinese invasion in 1950, the Tibetan state continued to fully function until 1959. For this reason, this biography of George Tsarong not only provides new and in-depth …
