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Azerbaijan Description and travel China China Tibet Autonomous Region Georgia Description and travel Kazakhstan Description and travel Tibet (China) Description and travel Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Description and travel Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Drama Travel United StatesGovinda, Anagarika Brahmacari.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press. 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.15 BRASummary: In Tibet, a once-sovereign nation for thousands of years, much of the country remains under harsh Communist Chinese rule and "patriotic re-education." The surviving Tibetan folk music shapes an endangered people's identity. Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who fled for India at the age of two, returned home to capture the music of his people. He was arrested and sentenced to eighteen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIBAlford, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5951 ALFLehman, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umbrage Editions 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 951.5 LEHTesson, Sylvain
Summary: "The Art of Patience is an account of an expedition to the mountains of Tibet in search of the elusive snow leopard. After recovering from an accident, adventurer Sylvain Tesson and his traveling companions embraced the virtues of patience and silence, and were rewarded when the snow leopard revealed itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.1 TESLobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso
Summary: A forefront Buddhist leader describes his witness to the torture and arrest of his family and teachers by Chinese authorities, his suffering at the sides of fellow monks under occupier "reeducation" practices, and his eventual escape to Tibet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOBJamie, Kathleen
Summary: "In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 JAMCowles, Ben Thomson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fithian Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.12 COWRoerich, Nicholas
Summary: Nikolaj Konstantinovich Rerih rodilsja (27 sentjabrja) 9 oktjabrja 1874 goda v Peterburge v sem'e notariusa. Do 1897 goda Nikolaj uchilsja v Akademii hudozhestv u Kuindzhi, a takzhe v studii Kormona v Parizhe. Pozzhe Rerih byl chlenom ob#edinenija «Mir iskusstva». S detskih let Reriha vlekli zhivopis', arheologija, istorija no, prezhde vsego, bogatejshee kul'turnoe nasledie Vostoka. Vse jeto,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: "Vieda" 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 ROEBaker, Ian
Summary: Describes the expedition of Buddhist scholar and mountain climber Ian Baker and his team into the heart of the previously unexplored Tsangpo Gorge, one of the world's most inaccessible and wildest regions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 BAKPeissel, Michel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.15 PEIDalai Lama XIV
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 951.505 DALFatland, Erika
Summary: "The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.7 FATSummary: "When a young man notices several thefts of sought-after Tibetan mastiffs from local farms, he decides to sell his family's dog before it is stolen and sold on the black market. His father, an aging Tibetan herder, is furious when he discovers their dog missing. His search to buy back his dog leads to a series of tragicomic events that threaten to tear the family apart, while showing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OLDSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: As China becomes the world's largest consumer market, its growing pains reveal fascinating business case studies. This program takes viewers into the heart of Shanghai's dog-eat-dog convenience store industry, focusing on the state-owned Hao de chain and its foreign-owned competitors. With Japan's Lawsons and Taiwan-backed Family Marts seemingly popping up on every corner, the program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Frontline goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history. In "The Dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DARBailey, Linda
Summary: "In this third book in the Time Travel Guides series, the three Binkerton siblings go back in time to 1st century CE China! Amid the chaos of their arrival, little Libby slips away, hitching a ride to the capital city. Soon she is dining with nobility and rubbing elbows with the emperor himself! The twins, Josh and Emma, on the other hand, are mistaken for barbarian spies and are pursued...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An amazing 53-day journey spanning 12,000 kilometers from Istanbujl, Turkey to Xian, China. Follow the riders as they travel the roads and tracks of the ancient traders and their caravans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Riders. 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SILSummary: Comprising elements of travelogue, history lesson, biography, critical analysis, psychological study, and fan testimonial, this documentary explores the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald, via a long walk through coastal East Anglia, retracing the steps he took in his most famous book, The rings Of Saturn. Includes interviews with writers, artists, and filmmakers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild/Spark 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PATChakraverty, Anjan
Summary: "Sacred Buddhist Painting is a lucid and readable account of thangka painting - a form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. Tibetans were often advised by their religious preceptors to commission a painting for the 'removal' of physical or mental obstacles, or to create the prerequisites for 'a long and healthy life'. Like any other virtuous deed, the commissioning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lustre Press 2006