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An Account of Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: Ippolito Desideri
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the eatural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Bryan J. Cuevas
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing i
Surviving the Dragon
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Arjia Rinpoche
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-02 - Publisher: Rodale Books

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On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precociou
Tibet, Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Patrick French
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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In 1982, while he was still a schoolboy, Patrick French met the Dalai Lama for the first time. Ever since, he has been fascinated by Tibet's people, its history
Mission to Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 834
Authors: Ippolito Desideri
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian mi