TIBET SOURCES BY TOPIC
Tibet Sources by Topic
*
= suggested sources for texts in grades 9-12
(op)
= title is out of print
Traditional
Tibetan Culture and Civilization
Goldstein,
Melvyn & Beall, Cynthia, Nomads of Western Tibet, University
of California Press, Berkeley, 1990
Hubbell
Maiden, A. & Farwell, E., The Tibetan Art of Parenting,
Wisdom, Boston, 1997
Henry,
Gray (Ed.), Islam in Tibet & The Illustrated Narrative
Tibetan Caravans, Fons Vitae, 1997
Johnson,
Russell & Moran, Kerry, Tibet's Sacred Mountain: The Extraordinary
Pilgramage to Mount Kailas, Park Street Press, Rochester,
VT, 1989 *
Redwood-French,
Rebecca, The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist
Tibet, Cornell U., 1995
Stein,
R.A., Tibetan Civilization, Stanford University. Press,
Stanford, 1972
Tucci,
Giuseppe, Tibet: Land of Snows, Stein and Day, NY,
1967 (OP)
Tibetan
Geography & Ecology
Hunt
Badiner, Alan (Ed.),Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in
Buddhism and Ecology, Parallax Press, 1990
Norberg-Hodge,
Helena, Ancient Futures, Sierra Club Books, 1991 *
Rockefeller,
Steven, and Elder, John (Ed.), Spirit and Nature: Why the
Environment is a Religious Issue- An Interfaith Dialogue,
Beacon Press, Boston, 1992
Tibetan
History
Beckwith, C., The Tibetan Empirein Central Asia,
Princeton U., 1987
Feigon,
Lee, Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land
of Snows, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1996 *
Goldstein,
Melvyn, A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-51, U. of California
Press, Berkeley, 1989
Grunfeld,
A. Tom, The Making of Modern Tibet, M.E. Sharpe, 1996
Richardson,
H.E., A Short History of Tibet, EP Dutton, NY, 1962
(OP)
Shakabpa,
W.D., Tibet: A Political History, Potala Publications,
New York, 1984 (1967) (op)
Modern
Tibet and the Current Tibetan Situation
Bass, Catriona, Education in Tibet: Policy and Practice since 1950,
Zed & Tibet Information Network, 1998
Barber,
Noel, From the Land of Lost Content: The Dalai Lama's Fight
for Tibet, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1970 (op)
Barnett,
Robert (Ed.), Resistance and Reform in Tibet, Indiana
U. Press, Bloomington, 1994
Donnet,
Pierre-Antoine, Tibet: Survival in Question, Zed Books
Ltd., New Jersey, 1994
Goldstein,
M., The Snow Lion & The Dragon: China, Tibet and The Dalai
Lama, U. California Press, Berkeley, 1997
Goldstein,
Melvyn, A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-51, U. of California
Press, Berkeley, 1989
Grunfeld,
A. Tom, The Making of Modern Tibet, M.E. Sharpe, 1996
Kelly,
Petra, Bastian, Gert, and Aiello, Pat (Ed.), The Anguish
of Tibet, Parallax Press, Berkeley, 1991 *
Kerr,
Blake, Sky Burial, The Noble Press, Chicago, 1993
Lazar,
Edward (Ed.), Tibet: The Issue is Independence, Parallax
Press, Berkeley, 1994 *
Margolis,
Eric, War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afganistan,
Kashmir and Tibet, Routledge, 2001
Norbu,
Dawa, Tibet: The Road Ahead, Rider, London, 1997
Chinese
View of Tibet
Bernstein,
Richard & Munro, Ross, The Coming Conflict with China,
Vintage Books, New York, 1998
Changching
Cao & Seymour, James (Eds.), Tibet Through Dissident Chinese
Eyes: Essays on Self Determination, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk,
NY, 1997
Dai
Yannian, Tibet: Myth vs. Reality, Beijing Review Press,
Beijing, 1988
Donnet,
Pierre-Antoine, Tibet: Survival in Question, Zed Books
Ltd., New Jersey, 1994
Epstein,
Israel, Tibet Transformed, New World Press, Beijing,
1983
Feigon,
Lee, Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land
of Snows, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1996 *
Goldstein,
Melvyn, The Snow Lion and The Dragon: China, Tibet and
The Dalai Lama, U. California Press, Berkeley, 1997
Goldstein,
Siebenschuh, & Tsering, The Struggle for Modern Tibet:
The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk,
NY, 1997
Han
Suyin, Lhasa, The Open City: A Journey to Tibet, G.P.
Putnam's Sons, New York, 1977 (op)
Information
Office of the State Council of The People's Republic of China, Tibet - Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation, Beijing,
1992 (available through the Chinese Embassy in Washington
D.C.)
Jing
Wei (Ed.), 100 Questions about Tibet, Beijing Review
Press, Beijing, 1989
Kristof,
Nicholas D. & WuDunn, Sheryl, China Wakes: The Struggle
for the Soul of a Rising Power, Random House, New York,
1994
Strong,
Anna Louise, Tibetan Interviews, New World Press, Beijing,
1959 (op)
Strong,
Anna Louise, When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet, New World
Press, Beijing, 1965 (op)
Wang
Furen and Suo Wenqing, Highlights of Tibetan History,
New World Press, Beijing, 1984
Tibetan
Resistance Movement
Andrugtsang,
Gompo Tashi, Four Rivers, Six Ranges, DIIR, Dharamsala,
1973
Conboy,
K. and Morrison, J., The CIA's Secret War in Tibet,
U. Kansas, 2002
Knauss,
John Kenneth, Orhpans of the Cold War: America and The
Tibetan Struggle for Survival, Public Affairs, New York,
1999
Norbu,
Jamyang, Warriors of Tibet, Wisdom, London, 1986 *
Peissel,
Michel, The Secret War In Tibet, Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston, 1972 (op)
Tibetan
Diaspora
Crossette,
Barbara, So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms
of the Himalayas, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995
Furer-Haimendorf,
Christoph von, The Renaissance of Tibetan Civilization,
Synergetic Press, Arizona, 1990
Harvey, Andrew, Journey in Ladakh, Houghton-Mifflin,
1984
Kamenetz,
Rodger, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish
Identity in Buddhist India, HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 *
Lopez,
Donald, Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the
West, U. Chicago Press, 1998
Norberg-Hodge,
Helena, Ancient Futures, Sierra Club Books, 1991 *
Tibetan
Biography
Craig,
Mary, Kundun: The Biography of the Family of The Dalai
Lama, Counterpoint, 1997
Evans-Wentz,
W.Y., Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa, Oxford Univ. Press,
London, 1973
Goldstein,
Siebenschuh, & Tsering, The Struggle for Modern Tibet:
The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk,
NY, 1997
Johnson,
Sandy, The Book of Tibetan Elders, Riverhead Books,
New York, 1996
Norbu,
Thubten J., Tibet is My Country, Wisdom, Boston, 1986
Panchen,
Ani & Donnelley, Adelaide, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey
of a Tibetan Warrior Nun, Kodansha International, New
York, 2000
Pema,
Jetsun, Tibet: My Story, Element Books, Rockport, MA,
1997
Sakya,
Jamyang & Emery, Julie, Princess In The Land Of Snows,
Shambhala, Boston, 1990 (op)
Yuthok,
Dorje Yudon, House of The Turquoise Roof, Snow Lion,
New York, 1990
Tibetan
Buddhism
Chodron,
Thubten, Open Heart, Clear Mind, Snow Lion, Ithaca,
1990 *
Dagyab
Rinpoche, Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture, Wisdom,
Boston, 1995
Lopez,
Jr., Donald (Ed.), Religions of Tibet in Practice,
Princeton U. Press, 1997
Powers,
John, An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, Snow Lion, 1995
Santideva,
Bodhicaraytara, Oxford University Press, 1996
Snelling,
John, The Buddhist Handbook, Inner Traditions, Rochester,
VT, 1991
Sogyal
Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, HarperSan
Francisco, 1992
Tenzin
Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV, The Way to Freedom, HarperSan
Francisco, 1994
Tenzin
Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV, Kindness, Clarity and Insight,
Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1987
Tibetan
Book of the Dead, there are three major translations available
Thurman,
Robert, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, HarperSanFrancisco,
1995
Thurman,
Robert, Inside Tibetan Buddhism: Rituals & Symbols Revealed,
Collins, 1995
Tucci,
Giuseppe, The Religions of Tibet, U. of California
Press, Berkeley, 1988 (1970)
Tibetan
Arts
Brauen,
Martin, The Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism,
Shambhala, Boston, 1997
Cozort,
Daniel & Monks of Namgyal, The Sand Mandala of Vajrabhairava,
Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1994
Dagyab
Rinpoche, Buddhist Symbols In Tibetan Culture, Wisdom,
Boston, 1995
Leidy,
D. & Thurman, R., Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment,
Shambhala, Boston, 1997
Mullin,
G. & Weber, A., The Mystical Arts of Tibet, Longstreet
Press, Atlanta, 1996 *
Rhie,
M. & Thurman, R., Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art
of Tibet, Harry Abrams, New York, 1991
Weber,
A., Wellings, N. & Landaw, J., Tara's Coloring Book,
Wisdom, Boston, 1979 *
Photography
of Tibet
Borges, Phil, Tibetan Portrait: The Power of
Compassion, Rizzoli, New York, 1996 *
Harrer,
Heinrich, Lost Lhasa: Heinrich Harrer's Tibet, Harry
N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1992
Johnson,
Russell & Moran, Kerry, Tibet's Sacred Mountain: The Extraordinary
Pilgramage to Mount Kailas, Park Street Press, Rochester,
VT, 1989
Mele,
Pietro, Tibet, Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1988
Rowell,
Galen & The Dalai Lama, My Tibet, Mountain Light Press,
Berkeley, 1990
Tibet:
The Sacred Realm, Photographs 1880-1950, Aperture Inc.,
1983
Tibetan
Folk Tales
Das,
Surya, The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane: Wisdom Tales From
Tibet, HarperSanFrancisco, 1992
Dorje,
Rinjing, Tales of Uncle Tompa, Station HillsArts/Barrytown
Ltd., New York, 1997
Hyde-Chambers,
Fredrick & Audrey, Tibetan Folk Tales, Shambhala, Boston,
1981 (op)
Tibetan
Medicine
Donden,
Dr. Yeshi, Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan
Medicine, Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1986
Tibetan
Interfaith and Cross-Cultural Connections
Gold,
Peter, Navajo & Tibetan Sacred Wisdom: The Circle of Spirit,
Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 1994
Gyatso,
Tenzin, The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on The Teachings
of Jesus, Wisdom, Boston, 1996
Kamenetz,
Rodger, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish
Identity in Buddhist India, HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 *
Tibet
and Western Imagination
Bishop. Peter, Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the
Western Imagination, Fairleigh Dickinson, 1993
Lopez,
Donald, Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the
West, U. Chicago Press, 1998
Schell,
Orville, Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-la from the
Himalayas to Hollywood, Henry Holt, 2000
Travel
in Tibet
Batchelor,
Stephen, The Tibet Guide, Wisdom, Boston, 1998 *
Bishop,
Peter, The Myth of Shangri-la: Tibet , Travel Writing and
the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape, U. California
Press, 1989
Dorje,
Gyurme, Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, Footprints Handbooks,
1996
McCue,
Gary, Trekking In Tibet, Mountaineers, Seattle, 1992
Foreign
Visitors In Tibet Before 1959
Berry,
Scott, A Stranger in Tibet: The Adventures of a Zen Monk,
Harper Collins, 1990
David-Neel,
Alexandra, My Journey to Lhasa, Beacon Press, Boston,
1986 (1927) *
Ekvall,
Robert, Tibetan Skylines, Farrar, Straus & Young, New
York, 1952 (op)
Fleming,
Peter, Bayonets to Lhasa, Oxford University Press,
New York, 1984 (1961)
Ford,
Robert, Wind between the Worlds, Snow Lion Graphics,
Berkeley, 1987 (1957)
Govinda,
Lama Anagarika, The Way of the White Clouds: A Buddhist
Pilgrim in Tibet, Shambhala, Berkeley, 1970 (1966) (op)
Harrer,
Heinrich, Seven Years in Tibet, Penquin, New York,
1954
Hopkirk,
Peter, Trespassers on the Roof of The World, Jeremy
P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 1982
Maraini,
Fosco, Secret Tibet, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London,
1952 (op)
McGovern,
William Montgomery, To Lhasa in Disguise, Grosset &
Dunlap, 1924 (op)
Miller,
Luree, On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet,
The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1984
Thomas,
Lowell, Jr., Out of this World, The Greystone Press,
New York, 1951 (op)
Tucci,
Giuseppe, To Lhasa and Beyond: Diary of the Expedition
to Tibet in the Year 1948, Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1987 (1956)
Foreign
Visitors in Tibet After 1959
Abbots,
Adrian, Naked Spirits: A Journey into Occupied Tibet,
Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 1997
Brook,
Elaine, Land of the Snow Lion: An Adventure in Tibet,
Jonathan Cape, London, 1987 (OP)
Gelder,
S. & R., The Timely Rain: Travels in new Tibet, Monthly
Review Press, New York, 1965 (OP)
Gold,
Peter, Altar of the Earth, Snow Lion Publications,
Ithaca, 1987
Han
Suyin, Lhasa. The Open City: A Journey to Tibet, G.P.
Putnam's Sons, New York, 1977 (OP)
Harrer,
Heinrich, Return to Tibet, Penguin Books, New York,
1987 (1983) (OP)
Iyer,
Pico, Video Night in Kathmandu, Vintage Books, New York, 1988
Johnson,
Russell & Moran, Kerry, Tibet's Sacred Mountain: The Extraordinary
Pilgramage to Mount Kailas, Park Street Press, Rochester,
VT, 1989
Kerr,
Blake, Sky Burial, Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1997
Patterson,
George N., Requiem for Tibet, Aurum Press, London,
1990 (OP)
Schmidt,
Jeremy, Himalayan Passage, The Mountaineers, Seattle,
1991
Theroux,
Paul, Riding the Red Iron Rooster, G.P. Putnam's Sons,
New York, 1988
Wilby,
Sorrel, Journey Across Tibet, Contemporary Books, Chicago,
1988
