TIBET: HISTORY, CIVILIZATION, AND TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Feminine Ground: Essays on Women & Tibet
Edited by Janice Willis. A collection of essays by scholars that explore women issues and female role models in ancient and contemporary Tibet.
(H,T) Paper. 164 Pages. $12.95

Tashi Jong: A Traditional Tibetan Community in Exile
A film by Barbara Green and the Tibetan Video Project. An award winning documentary about villagers from a community in the Kham Province of Tibet who flee their homeland after the Chinese occupation and resettle as a community in the foothills of Northern India. The lama who arranges this resettlement named their village Tashi Jong or Auspicious Valley, and helped create a self-sustaining Tibetan enclave in exile The film offers a model for the sustainability of traditional culture, once insulated from the outside world, now redefining itself in a modern world. A valuable cross-cultural source for teaching students (grade 5 & up) about elements and patterns of culture and the growing trend of vanishing traditional culture. Educational themes: traditional culture, exile experience, diaspora, sustainability, education, cultural survival.
(H) Video. 45 minutes. $35.00

Tibet Stamp Set
Reprints of Tibet's first stamp issues in 1912. Evidence of Tibet's independence as a nation state.
Five sets of 12 gummed stamps. $5.00