Himalayas
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IS BN 978-974-480-104-3
WL Order Code 22 531
US$65.00
Bangkok 2007, 466 pp., 40 pp. color illus., 4
pp. B&W illus., 210 x 297 mm, pbk |
Dalton, Tuite;
Tribal World of the Eastern Himalaya and Indo-Burma-Borderland
This is the first complete reprint of Edward Tuite Dalton’s Descriptive Ethnology
of Bengal in more than 130 years.
The term “Bengal” in Dalton’s time
referred to what are now the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal,
Jharkhand, Tripura, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Megalaya, Manipur, Mizoram,
and Nagaland, and the present-day country of Bangladesh.
The new title is a
more geographically precise description of the lands and people treated in this
classic ethnography.
Each tribe described by Dalton is portrayed in stunning lithographs that
convey a sense of immediacy free of the staging common to Victorian ethnographic
photography.
The reader will discover a precious record of a tribal
world now all but vanished. As languages and cultures disappear, books like
Dalton’s become sole reminders of our immensely rich human diversity.
Jon Miceler, a conservationist who has worked among the tribes of
Arunachal Pradesh for the last seven years, has written the introduction to this
reprint.
A companion volume by Miceler will follow which assesses the present
day situation of the tribes of the Indo-Tibetan and Indo-Burma borderlands. |
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IS BN 978-974-7534-59-7
WL Order Code 22 229
US$52.00
Bangkok 2001, 308 pp., 100 pp. color illus.,
210 x 290 mm, pbk.
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Gruschke, Andreas;
Amdo, Vol. 1: The Qinghai Part of Amdo
This book presents the fascinating world of northeast Tibet’s historical and
cultural monuments.
The author’s original studies reveal that Tibetan culture
is thriving. Tibetans have rebuilt their economy and revitalized their traditional
way of life. East Tibet has not until now been thoroughly researched although
it comprises about two-thirds of the Tibetan Plateau.
This book provides comprehensive
information on unknown sites in Amdo.
The first volume starts with the famous Kumbum Monastery.
Next, the major lamaseries of Tsongkha and
the Yellow River bend are described with a historical outline of northeastern
Tibet.
Detailed descriptions of the major historic sites will help understand
their development, as well as locating sites and understanding what can be seen
there.
Amdo includes densely populated Tsongkha with Muslim, Han-Chinese
and Tibetan communities the realm of Ngolok’s sacred Amnye Machen mountain
and the vast empty steppes and deserts of the central highland and Tsaidarn
basin.
The pastoral world of the formerly notorious Ngolok nomads and their
religious realm are also described. |
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IS BN 978-974-7534-90-0
WL Order Code 22 230
US$52.00
Bangkok 2001, 263 pp., 80 pp. color illus.,
210 x 290 min, pbk.
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Gruschke, Andreas; Amdo, Vol. 2: The Gansu and Sichuan Parts of Amdo
This book presents unknown Tibetan Buddhist art and hitherto overlooked
Sino-Tibetan lamaseries on the Silk Road fringes.
Labrang Monastery in the Tibeto-Chinese borderlands, for instance, highlights
the nexus between Tibet, East and Central Asia. Gansu, in the Sichuan part of
Amdo, contains a wealth of local Tibetan cultural centers.
The Ngawa Gelugpa
realm and the last Jonangpa communities in Dzamthang, that have been greatly
underestimated for centuries, are given the prominence they deserve.
This work helps to dispel uninformed views that have been spread in the
West.
Detailed descriptions of the major historic sites facilitate the understanding
of their development, and provide further guidance to find the sites and
understand what can be seen there.
One can prepare a tour to this region by
getting knowledgeable about the extraordinary cultural monuments presented
here.
Serta, the world’s largest Buddhist academy, virtually unknown, has
impressive architectural features such as the Jonangchbrten and temple towers
seen nowhere else in Tibet.
These add to the hidden treasures of Amdo’s revitalized
Buddhist tradition.
The region presented in this book is one of diversity
in a highland realm that for long was neglected in respect of its historic and
cultural importance. |
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IS BN 978-974-480-049-7
WL Order Code 22 359
US$52.00
Bangkok 2004, 166 pp., 45 maps, fully in
col., 210x 295 mm, pbk.
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Gruschke, Andreas; Kham, Vol. 1: The Tar Part of Kham (Tibet Autonomous
Region)
This detailed survey of the cultural monuments of Tibet’s outer provinces
reveals that Tibetan culture is neither extinct in Tibet proper nor in the outer
provinces of Amdo and Kham.
Their inhabitants’ accomplishments in rebuilding
monasteries, restructuring the economy and revitalizing the traditional way
of life are among the most fascinating recent events in Asia.
Thus the author of
this work takes it as his expression of admiration and respect for what Tibetans
have accomplished within the last decades.
The author has visited and thoroughly
documented many of the unknown sites in Amdo and Kham, among
them highly active monastic establishments with hundreds or even thousands
of monks, or hidden treasures of Tibet’s living and revitalized Buddhist tradition.
In presenting this study of the cultural monuments in eastern Tibet, he
covered a variety of historical, economic or religio-philosophical aspects in
order to explain and evaluate the differences and the common features within
the Tibetan cultural context. |
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IS BN 978-974-480-061-9
WL Order Code 22 442
US$78.00
Bangkok 2005, 334 pp., fully illus. in col. 27
maps, 210 x 295 mm, pbk.
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Gruschke, Andreas; Kham Vol. 2: The Qinghai Part of Kham
This volume deals with the Qinghai Part of Kham
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IS BN 978-974-7534-30-6
WL Order Code 22 172
US$28.00
Bangkok 2000, repr. from 1939; 385 pp.,
120 pp. illus., 1 col. map, 1 foldout chart,
1 foldout panoramic view, 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
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Heim, Arnold & August Gansser; The Throne of the Gods:
An Account of
the First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas
Originally published in German in 1938 and in English in 1939, this account
was written by two geologists whose eight months journey in the Himalayas
took them through the then “forbidden” lands of Nepal and Tibet, culminating
at Mt. Kailas, “The Throne of The Gods.” Apart form their geological studies,
altitudes were measured by using barometric observations.
The lives of the people, animals, and plants were recorded, both among the crags and glaciers of
the high mountains and also on the way there through the plains and foothills of
India.
The return journey included a visit to the source of the Ganges.
A wealth of period photos and maps makes this book a valuable resource for naturalists,
geologists, and mountaineers.
With a new foreword by A. Gansser. We carry a variety or rare books on the Himalaya region
(more details later) |
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No IS BN
WL Order Code 727
US$148.00
Ascona no date, 83 pp., 62 pp. illus., 240 x
320 mm
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Huntington, John C.; The Phur-Pa: Tibetan Ritual Daggers
The “far‑reaching” arrow or bolt as a means of controlling negative factors
in one’s life is a phenomenon occurring in many circum‑Pacific cultures.
But nowhere has it reached the importance and complex development that the
phur‑pa achieved in association with Buddhism in the Nepalo‑Tibetan regions.
This study is an attempt to survey the iconography of the manifold types of
phur‑pa and to set up broad categories of classification based on iconographic
elements.
A considerable variety of implements is examined and analyzed in
order to determine their relationship to underlying principles.
In each case it
will be seen that nothing less than the force of the Universal itself is brought to
bear on the subject of concern. |
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