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Mrs. Dorje Yuthok's frank and fascinating account of life in upper-class Lhasa before the Chinese occupation is also a quiet, dignified description of a noblewo
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Pages: 277
Authors: Madhuvanti Ghose
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding
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Pages: 256
Authors: Joe Dan Lowry
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: Gibbs Smith

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Turquoise has been mined on six continents and traded by cultures throughout the world's history, including the Europeans, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, and Sout
Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China
Language: en
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Authors: Gray Tuttle
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Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work,
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The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing fr