Hidden Tibet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden Tibet write by Sergius L. Kuzmin. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Hidden Tibet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the history of Tibetan statehood from ancient times to our days, describes the life of the Tibetans at the times of Feudalism and Socialism, the coercive inclusion of Tibet into People’s Republic of China, the suppression of the national liberation movement, the Cultural Revolution, and subsequent reforms. Many pictures and data concerning these events are being published for the first time.
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead write by Bryan J. Cuevas. This book was released on 2005-12-08. The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Hidden Teachings of Tibet
Hidden Teachings of Tibet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden Teachings of Tibet write by Thondup (Tulku.). This book was released on 1986. Hidden Teachings of Tibet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Magic and Mystery in Tibet
Magic and Mystery in Tibet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic and Mystery in Tibet write by Madame Alexandra David-Neel. This book was released on 2012-04-27. Magic and Mystery in Tibet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Secret Tibet
Secret Tibet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secret Tibet write by Fosco Maraini. This book was released on 2002. Secret Tibet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fosco Maraini looks back at the world he first unfolded nearly 50 years ago in his classic account of the visits he made to Tibet. He brings back to life a world which will never be seen again. In the tradition of Italian travellers from the days of Marco Polo, Maraini went to Tibet to learn, to understand, to give and to receive. His encounter with the people of Tibet, from princesses to peasants, aided as he was by a good knowledge of the language, is a true meeting of minds. The text, which attests to the disciplines of the scholar allied to the sensitivity of the poet, is enriched by the narrative value of the author's photographs, including many Buddhist temple artefacts now forever lost. "From the Hardcover edition.
