Tibet in Exile book by Jane Perkins, Raghu Rai, Dalai Lama

Jane Perkins, Raghu Rai, Dalai Lama

ISBN 10: 0304340529 / ISBN 13: 9780304340521

Published by Orion Publishing Co, 1991

About this Item

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Some wear to dustcover. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Tibet has been a land shrouded in medievalism and mysticism for centuries, ruled from the fabled Potala palace by the reincarnation of a god-king. the Dalai Lama. Incredible accounts from the earli- est explorers of lamas levitating to change mind and matter, of yogis meditating in mountain caves without sleep or sustenance for years, and of shamans blowing human thighbone horns to stop hail or bring rain have established Tibet in the curious eyes of the outside world as a true-life Himalayan Shangri La. Whether myth or reality, this Tibet no longer exists. With the Chinese communist invasion of 1950 came the end of a unique and timeless culture and lifestyle. Within less than thirty years more than six thousand of the country's ancient monasteries and temples were ransacked and reduced to rubble and over a million Tibetans had died as a result of Chinese occupation. Had the Fourteenth Dalai Lama not escaped to India in 1959, inspiring a hund.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tibet in Exile book by Jane Perkins, Raghu Rai, Dalai Lama
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304340529
• ISBN 13: 9780304340521
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Regional and National History

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Synopsis

A visual portrait of the exiled Tibetan community gathered round the Dalai Lama - spritual head of the Tibetan people - at Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas. Illustrated with pictures by a prize-winning photographer, this book is a memorial to a culture under threat.

From Library Journal

This is a large work in many senses, the oversized format befitting the subject. The opening text, "The Land of Snows," chronicles events between the historic escapes from the Chinese of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1910 and the 14th in 1959. "Refuge in India" describes the danger and devastation for those who followed, the conditions of their emerging community, and the situation of their homeland under Chinese rule. Both texts use black-and-white photographs, in striking contrast to "The Legend Lives: The Photographs of Raghu Rai," occupying the majority of the book. In full, vibrant color, Rai, an Indian photojournalist and member of Magnum, portrays the lives of meditation and ceremony practiced by the Dalai Lama and the Buddhist monks who follow him, as well as the lives of ordinary Tibetans in exile--their political actions, their markets, celebrations, and schools. The richness and potency of these photographs give witness to the vitality and continuity of the endangered refugee community.
- Ann Copeland, Champaign, Ill.
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