Tibet


Seven Years in Tibet
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
Lost Horizon
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
To a Mountain in Tibet
The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan, #1)
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
Magic and Mystery in Tibet
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
Tibet: A History
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Compass)
The Snow Leopard
Ethnische Religionen. Grundwissen Religion. Universale Elemen... by Karl R. WernhartElementarreligionen by Gabriele WeissReligionen der Naturvölker by Thomas AchelisDas Weltbild der primitiven; eine Untersuchung der Urformen w... by Fritz GraebnerSymbolik In Den Religionen Der Naturvolker by Ferdinand Herrmann
Ethnische Religionen
100 books — 1 voter
The Heart Is Noble by Ogyen Trinley DorjeThe Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning by Khenchen ThranguMusic in the Sky by Ogyen Trinley DorjeThe Third Karmapa's Mahamudra Prayer by Khentin Tai Situpa Rinpoche...The Karmapa's Middle Way by Wangchuk Dorje
Tibetan Buddhism: The Karmapas
18 books — 2 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLucky by Scott NelsonGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonHeidi by Johanna SpyriThe Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos
Mountains on the Cover
424 books — 88 voters
PIRATE’S ALLEY by Thomas J LevequeThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniBeneath a Marble Sky by John ShorsThe Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Historical Fiction - South Asia
86 books — 29 voters

The Way of the Bodhisattva by ŚhāntidevaThe Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal RinpocheThe Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul RinpocheCutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam TrungpaWhat Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Best Books on Tibetan Buddhism
141 books — 54 voters
CHINA by Tom  CarterStreet Life Hong Kong by Nicole ChabotKowloon by Ira ChaplainPanoramas of the Far East by Lois ConnerSpirit of China by Parragon Books
CHINA Photography Books
15 books — 14 voters

Miles Neale
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The great eleventh-century Nalanda pandit Lama Atisha understood this well, and with a mighty heart of wise compassion he set out to marshal the Buddha‘s eighty-four thousand teachings – found in hundreds of scriptures and thousands of verses – into a logical, sequential, and practical road map to help guide spiritual seekers on the path, from ordinariness to liberation on to full and final awakening. This unique style of teaching came to be called Lam Ri ...more
Miles Neale, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human

Heinrich Harrer
Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.
Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

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