Home > History > Asia
Asia
The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

* available from Arrow Paul Scott THE TOWERS OF SILENCE To Penny With all my Love Part One THE UNKNOWN INDIAN I In September 1939, when the war had just ...
( Category: War January 29,2015 )
China 1945 by Richard Bernstein
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Richard Bernstein [Bernstein, Richard]

The person on the receiving end of these communications was the head of the China desk in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, John Carter Vincent, a distinguished-looking forty-five-year-old Kansan ...
( Category: Asian January 29,2015 )
Another Man's War by Barnaby Phillips
epub |eng, eng | 2014-07-23 | Author:Barnaby Phillips

( Category: World War II January 29,2015 )
Ping-Pong Diplomacy by Nicholas Griffin
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Griffin

CHAPTER 35 | Long Hair, Light Heart The same year that the Chinese world champions had stepped off a plane straight into the Cultural Revolution, Glenn Cowan was still a ...
( Category: Miscellaneous January 29,2015 )
Blossoms In The Wind: Human Legacies Of The Kamikaze by Sheftall M.G
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Sheftall, M.G. [Sheftall, M.G.]

Looks like rainy season is upon us again. It certainly sounds like you are training very hard. We were all shocked speechless to hear about Corporal Makiuchi’s death. He sounded ...
( Category: Japan January 29,2015 )
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Samuel Hawley

CHAPTER 18 Seoul Retaken Spring—arguably the most beautiful season in Korea. After a harsh winter of ice and snow and cold north winds, the warming weather and first green shoots ...
( Category: China January 29,2015 )
Under the Dragon by Rory Maclean
epub |eng | 2013-06-30 | Author:Rory Maclean

SIX Within, Without HER ROOM WAS BARE. Its bald white walls retained no history. It was a place without a past, where games began but life could not be contained. ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )
Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama: The Untold Story of the Holy Men Who Shaped Tibet, from Pre-history to the Present Day by Norman Alexander
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Norman, Alexander [Norman, Alexander]

Accordingly, Lobsang Gyatso instructed Sonam Rabten to compose a letter to Gushri Khan authorizing an attack on the king of Beri, but requesting that his troops return to Mongolia directly ...
( Category: Chinese January 22,2015 )
The Story of Tibet: Conversations With the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Thomas Laird

I came back to the Dalai Lama armed with my research. As I briefly narrated, with a sense of indignation and outrage, the game Russia and Britain had played, the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism by Jacob P. Dalton
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Jacob P. Dalton

In many ways, the Dalai Lama’s language here follows the well-worn tracks of the language of ritual violence and of past Tibetan prophets warning of threats from the borderlands. Pointing ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World by Robert Thurman
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 22,2015 )
Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Sam van Schaik

WHOSE GAME? By the close of the nineteenth century, British India was very different from what it had been in the days of Warren Hastings and George Bogle. The gentleman ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Tibetan Ritual by Jose Ignacio Cabezon
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Jose Ignacio Cabezon

Accordingly, when many Mongol troops led by one called Khathasu arrived that Pig year (1587), they rushed from Oyug33 up to Nyugda.34 At that time, I had no aquaintance with ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
The Making of Buddhist Modernism by McMahan David L
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:McMahan, David L. [McMahan, David L.]

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow.... And if ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Rimey Lama Chopa: A Tibetan Rimey Tantric Feast by Khyentse Dilgo
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Khyentse, Dilgo [Khyentse, Dilgo]

[*In which every instruction of the Buddha can be integrated for the enlightenment of an individual practitioner; called “wondrous” because texts, precepts and oral instructions are all brought into harmony.] ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )

First Prev [222] [223] [224] [225] 226 [227] [228] [229] [230] [231] [232] Next Last