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Tibet in the Western Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: T. Neuhaus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-07 - Publisher: Springer

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Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel
Geopolitical Exotica
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Dibyesh Anand
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Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Geopolitical Exotica examines exoticized Western representations of Tibet and Tibetans and the debate over that land’s status with regard to China. Concentrat
Tibet in the Western Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: T. Neuhaus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-07 - Publisher: Springer

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Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel
Imagining Tibet
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Thierry Dodin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In the past century, the Western view of Tibet has evolved from an exotic Shangri-la filled with golden idols and the promise of immortality, to a peaceful land
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