Octavo, [8in/20cm], full blue cloth with [slightly tattered] dust jacket, pp. 327, indexed. illustrated with b-w halftones.

Tibet and Its History

History

RICHARDSON, Hugh

Asia

Shambhala

Tibet & Its History

<p>A history of this tiny, mountainous country looks at life in Tibet from the sixth century A.D. to modern life under Communist rule, and discusses the nation's geography, language, government, and economy</p>

Americas

Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year

Weatherhill

<p>This texts brings together some 65 contributions by Hugh Richardson to Tibetan Studies written over the course of nearly 60 years. Part 1 contains 27 articles on the crucial and formative phase of Tibet's history in the 7th to 9th centuries AD. In Part 2 nine articles focus on key historical sites and incriptions dating mostly from the early period. Part 3 reproduces fouteen articles on later history down to the 20th century, including a number of studies on Chinese and Western involvement with Tibet. Part 4 is a reprint of Richardson's Tibetan Precis (Calcutta, Govt. of India PRess, 1945), a secret publication containing classified information summarizing British relations with Tibet. The volume concludes in Part 5 with fourteen articles in which the author provides his own personal testimonies and recollections of life in traditional Tibet and his reactions to its subsequent fate. This work should be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists.</p>

High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings on Tibetan History and Culture

Aris, Michael

Serindia Pubns

MEMOIRES D'UN MOINE AVENTURIER TIBETAIN

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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