A Handbook of Tibetan Culture: a guide to Tibetan centres and resources throughout the world - Hardcover

9780712656634: A Handbook of Tibetan Culture: a guide to Tibetan centres and resources throughout the world

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712656634 ISBN 13: 9780712656634

Publisher: Rider, 1993

The first encyclopedic reference guide to Tibetan cultural resources worldwide

Over the past nine years the Orient Foundation has compiled a database that brings together information on more than 600 Tibetan-related organizations throughtout the world. Compiled under the auspices of HH The Dalai Lama, this book provided comprehensive information about Tibetan Buddhism and culture for the general public including museums, teaching centers, retreat centers, and publications listed in a country-by-country gazetteer. It also provides background information on the four schools of Tibetan Biddhism, biographies of practicing Tibetan teachers, and a glossary of Tibetan terms.

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About the Author:

Graham Coleman is the president of the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture, a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. He has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the 1970s, including The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss, and is the writer and director of the feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy.

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