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Roerich, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: "Vieda" 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 ROE

Gyuto Monks

Contents: Yamantaka (27:44) -- Mahakala (26:58) -- #2 for Gaia (9:17).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN GYU

Karma-gliṅ-pa

Summary: Contains a translation of the key Buddhist text that follows a Buddhist priest and student as they guide a deceased person into afterlife, chronicling the progress of the soul through death and rebirth in three stages.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 KAR

Khandro

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.374 RIN

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3923 DAL

Pearlman, Ellen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 PEA

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIB

Namkhai Norbu

Contents: The practice of Chöd -- The long life practice of Mandarava -- The song of the vajra.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Amiata 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN NAM

Chakraverty, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lustre Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.951 CHA

Sherab Ling (Monastery : Himachal Pradesh, India)

Contents: Mahamudra lineage prayer & meditation -- Mahakala puja. Invocation and offering to Mahakala ; Receiving blessings and dedicating the merit to world peace and harmony.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos World [distributor] 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN SHE

Summary: "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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OLD

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THA

Pattison, Eliot

Summary: "Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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