A Home In Tibet
Title | A Home In Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9351181944 |
When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother’s ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter’s haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.
Coming Home to Tibet
Title | Coming Home to Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-07-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0834840103 |
In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother and a homeland that she knew little about. Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.
The House Tibet
Title | The House Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Georgia Savage |
Publisher | Penguin Mass Market |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140168136 |
American issue of a novel first published in Australia in 1989. A young girl raped by her father runs away with her autistic brother, joins up with a group of streetwise kids, and eventually finds sanctuary in the House Tibet. By the author of 'The Estuary'.
The Culture of the Book in Tibet
Title | The Culture of the Book in Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Kurtis R. Schaeffer |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0231147163 |
Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history, allowing for a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.
Tibet, Tibet
Title | Tibet, Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick French |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2009-09-09 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0307548066 |
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history, agitated for its freedom, and risked arrest to travel through its remote interior. His love and knowledge inform every page of this learned, literate, and impassioned book. Talking with nomads and Buddhist nuns, exiles and collaborators, French portrays a nation demoralized by a half-century of Chinese occupation and forced to depend on the patronage of Western dilettantes. He demolishes many of the myths accruing to Tibet–including those centering around the radiant figure of the Dalai Lama. Combining the best of history, travel writing, and memoir, Tibet, Tibet is a work of extraordinary power and insight.
布达拉宮
Title | 布达拉宮 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art, Tibetan |
ISBN |
本书内容包括布达拉宮概述, 建筑外景, 东庭院, 白宮门廊等等.
Coming Home to Tibet
Title | Coming Home to Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2016-07-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1611803292 |
In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and longing, a daughter's pilgrimage to her mother's native Tibet becomes a journey of homecoming and self-discovery. In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother, and a homeland that she knew little about. Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.