Tibet in Exile book by Jane Perkins, Raghu Rai, Dalai Lama
Language: English
Published by Orion Publishing Co, 1991
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United KingdomWest Cove UK
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Condition: Used - Good
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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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- Title
- Tibet in Exile book by Jane Perkins, Raghu Rai, Dalai Lama
- Author
- Jane Perkins, Raghu Rai, Dalai Lama
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0304340529
- ISBN 13
- 9780304340521
- Seller catalogs
- Regional and National History
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