Through Forbidden Tibet
Author | : Harrison Forman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harrison Forman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tsering Woeser |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640122907 |
When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived. In Forbidden Memory the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People's Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser's annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. Heartbreaking and revelatory, Forbidden Memory offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today. Access the glossary.
Author | : Harrison Forman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1984-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780849032400 |
Author | : Lowell Thomas Jr. |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1787207544 |
In 1949, renowned travel writer Lowell Thomas, Jr., along with his father, the American writer and broadcaster best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous, was invited by the Tibetan government to make a film there, in the hope that their reports would help persuade the U.S. government to defend Tibet against the Chinese. The trip lasted 400 days, and the father-and-son team were the last Westerners to reach Lhasa before the Chinese invasion and occupation. The trek garnered worldwide attention when Lowell Thomas, Jr. succeeded in getting his father safely across the Himalayas to India after a serious accident on a 17,000-foot pass. Out of This World, which was first published in 1950 and became a bestseller, tells the story of this journey that the author describes as “a climax to his father’s lifetime of adventure” and “probably the greatest travel adventure I will ever have”. A thoroughly gripping autobiography.
Author | : Arnold Henry Savage Landor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Tibet (China) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Madame Alexandra David-Neel |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2012-04-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0486119440 |
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Author | : Tiziana Baldizzone |
Publisher | : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Tibet (China) |
ISBN | : 9781556705113 |
"Born in Paris in 1868, Alexandra David-Neel spent some thirteen years traveling though China and Tibet, walking unknown routes, discovering and photographing new cultures and people, and exploring their traditions and religious beliefs. "The land of the gentleman brigands" was the name she gave to an area in the far west of China, populated by fierce and dangerous tribes, through which she traveled several times in her attempts to reach Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet." "Today, Alexandra David-Neel's photographs and the written accounts of her expeditions remain as testimony to her courage. But as she wrote at the time, she regretted that her pictures "would not convey the true colors of this wonderful land." Some 70 years later, photographers Tiziana and Gianni Baldizzone traveled to Tibet to discover for themselves this fascinating land, to visit the same tribes, and to photograph the people and the landscapes - to "give color" to the impressions of Alexandra David-Neel. With more than 145 stunning illustrations, their book is a celebration of color, showing in marvelous detail the panoramic landscapes, the faces and expressions of individual people, and the splendid decoration of the costumes, as elaborate today as in the 1920s. This photographic pilgrimage journeys through both time and space to a land rarely seen by Western eyes."--Jacket.
Author | : Harrison FORMAN |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lowell Thomas, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1447400259 |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : William Montgomery McGovern |
Publisher | : New York, Century |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
William Montgomery McGovern was an American adventurer, anthropologist and journalist. He was possibly an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones. McGovern claims he had to sneak into the Tibet disguised as a local porter. As Time reported in 1938: With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with an escort.--Wikipedia.