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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 )
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 )
Tibet, Tibet by French Patrick
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:French, Patrick [French, Patrick]

You could see the history of Tibet through a family, by looking at the way its influence unfolded and retracted over two hundred years. Reincarnation has long been intertwined with ...
( Category: Travel January 22,2015 )
A Short History of China by Gordon Kerr
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Gordon Kerr [Kerr, Gordon]

Expansion The traditional area of the Middle Kingdom was extended by the Ming Dynasty rulers. The territories of Yunnan and Guizhou were fully subsumed by the empire in 1381. 200,000 ...
( Category: China January 18,2015 )
Restless Empire by Odd Westad
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Odd Westad [Westad, Odd Arne]

ANY SOCIETY PUT UNDER the stress of massive warfare will suffer, not just at the time but for years to come. China was no exception. Everywhere the Japanese armies went, ...
( Category: China January 13,2015 )
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Stephen R. Platt [Platt, Stephen R.]

The five-year-old heir to the Qing imperial throne was the son of one of Xianfeng’s concubines, a pretty young Manchu woman named Yehonala who had been chosen by Xianfeng to ...
( Category: China January 10,2015 )
Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts by Tang Xiaobing
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Tang, Xiaobing [Tang, Xiaobing]

Coda: Children and truck drivers It should not be surprising that in dramas about husbands and wives there are often children playing supplementary roles, but the involvement of a truck ...
( Category: China January 8,2015 )
The Record of Great Doubts by Kaibara Ekken
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Kaibara Ekken

31 Zhu Xi said, “If people take an attitude that they don’t rely on only one school and are not partial to only one theory, they will get a hodgepodge ...
( Category: Eastern January 8,2015 )
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China by John Man
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-18 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

fn1 Golden because Genghis’s family was the ‘Golden Clan’, and Horde because the Mongolian ord (or ordon, in an alternative form) meant a palace, which back then was a tent ...
( Category: Asia January 6,2015 )
Four Sisters of Hofei : A History (9781439125878) by Chin Annping
epub |eng | | Author:Chin, Annping

YUN-HO Yun-ho (left), with Yuan-ho, when she was a college student in Shanghai. WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, Yun-ho did not like love scenes in an opera, or scenes with ...
( Category: China December 27,2014 )
Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes by James Palmer
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:James Palmer

Back in Beijing, the staff of the Seismological Bureau ran to work. Like most people with government positions, they had free housing near their offices. Their office was covered with ...
( Category: Earthquakes & Volcanoes December 27,2014 )
Brave Dragons by Jim Yardley
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Jim Yardley [Yardley, Jim]

Li Yuanwei, commissioner of the league, arrived about fifteen minutes before tipoff and took a seat in the coal millionaire section. Bespectacled and professorial, Li was the mystery guest, a ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )

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