Isabel Hilton
Author of The Search for the Panchen Lama
About the Author
Isabel Hilton is an international print & broadcast journalist & a well-known commentator on Chinese affairs. She lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Isabel Hilton. Photograph from Isabel Hilton's profile page at The Guardian.
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- Legal name
- Hilton, Isabel Nancy
- Birthdate
- 1949
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of Edinburgh (MA|Chinese)
- Occupations
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broadcaster - Awards and honors
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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- Ascherson, Neal (spouse)
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- Scotland
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- Scotland
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bookshelves: spring-2014, hardback, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, tibet, lifestyles-deathstyles, nonfiction, politics, philosophy, biography, buddhism, religion, history, journalism, published-1999
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Karen Witzler
Read from May 11 to 28, 2014
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Withdrawn from Huntingdon Library.
Opening: Choekyi Gyaltsen, more widely known as the tenth reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, died on a freezing night in January 1989 in his own monastery of Tashilhunpo, show more in Tibet.
Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse, Tibet
Page 18: 'The Potala was built by the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, the first of the Gelugpa hierarchs to assume secular power. His accession as King of Tibet in the seventeenth century had brought a measure of peace to a country riven for more than a hundred years by sectarian warfare.'
Firstly a thank you to Karen for for bringing this book to my attention.
This lengthy history is very interesting, however it is written in a non-linear way, making it hard to keep the facts straight. I especially enjoy that Ms Hilton recognises this growing Western trend of Dr. Martin wearing maroon-cloaked accolytes hanging on the robes of the court in exile. Example on Page 6: 'The hotel* is the chief exhibition room for what the Dalai Lama's brother, Tenzin Choegyal, later called the Shangri-La Syndrome - Westerners who are seeking answers to a variety of personal questions by means of the Tibetan Cause.'
*Hotel Tibet, Dharamsala
Overall though, this is not a book I would recommend other than to those with more than a passing interest, as the lay-out of information is too haphazard. One thing I did learn, and it is an important point, the young lad I spied overhead at Yonghegong must have been Gyaincain Norbu. So for that learning point alone this book has been useful.
TRIVIA
Bon or Bön also Bonism or Benism (Chinese: 苯教, Běnjiào) is the term for the religious tradition or sect of Tibet more accurately called Yungdrung Bon today.
Zezhol Monastery of the Tibetan Bon Religion at Dengqen County of Qamdo prefecture
The Tibetan Book of Proportions show less
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Karen Witzler
Read from May 11 to 28, 2014
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Withdrawn from Huntingdon Library.
Opening: Choekyi Gyaltsen, more widely known as the tenth reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, died on a freezing night in January 1989 in his own monastery of Tashilhunpo, show more in Tibet.
Tashilhunpo Monastery བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ོ་, Shigatse, Tibet
Page 18: 'The Potala was built by the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, the first of the Gelugpa hierarchs to assume secular power. His accession as King of Tibet in the seventeenth century had brought a measure of peace to a country riven for more than a hundred years by sectarian warfare.'
Firstly a thank you to Karen for for bringing this book to my attention.
This lengthy history is very interesting, however it is written in a non-linear way, making it hard to keep the facts straight. I especially enjoy that Ms Hilton recognises this growing Western trend of Dr. Martin wearing maroon-cloaked accolytes hanging on the robes of the court in exile. Example on Page 6: 'The hotel* is the chief exhibition room for what the Dalai Lama's brother, Tenzin Choegyal, later called the Shangri-La Syndrome - Westerners who are seeking answers to a variety of personal questions by means of the Tibetan Cause.'
*Hotel Tibet, Dharamsala
Overall though, this is not a book I would recommend other than to those with more than a passing interest, as the lay-out of information is too haphazard. One thing I did learn, and it is an important point, the young lad I spied overhead at Yonghegong must have been Gyaincain Norbu. So for that learning point alone this book has been useful.
TRIVIA
Bon or Bön also Bonism or Benism (Chinese: 苯教, Běnjiào) is the term for the religious tradition or sect of Tibet more accurately called Yungdrung Bon today.
Zezhol Monastery of the Tibetan Bon Religion at Dengqen County of Qamdo prefecture
The Tibetan Book of Proportions show less
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