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Tibet & Tibetan Buddhism

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1

Indian Mythology: Myths and Legends of India, Tibet and Sri Lanka

by Rachel Storm

13 members

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2

Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks - My Life in the Death Zone

by Nimsdai Purja

75 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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3

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

136 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

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4

Tibet Past and Present

by Charles Bell

32 members

1 review

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5

Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River

by Peter Heller

133 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

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6

Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

by Harley Rustad

164 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

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7

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

by Isabel Allende

2,030 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

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8

A slender thread : escaping disaster in the Himalaya

by Stephen Venables

72 members

1 review

3.9

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9

by Robert Twigger

61 members

½ 3.6

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10

Himalaya: Encounters With Eternity

by Ashvin Mehta

25 members

½ 3.5

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11

Among Flowers : A Walk in the Himalaya

by Jamaica Kincaid

180 members

6 reviews

3.1

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12

Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks

by Andy Fanshawe

24 members

½ 4.3

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13

Himalaya: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge, and Hope

by Broughton Coburn

39 members

½ 3.3

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14

Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya

by Bruce Kirkby

41 members

2 reviews

3.8

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15

Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals--And an Ancient Way of Life

by Michael Benanav

24 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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16

The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

by Scott Ellsworth

84 members

1 review

4

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17

The clear mirror : a traditional account of Tibet's golden age

by Sakyapa Sonam Gyaltsen

28 members

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18

Kailas: On Pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Tibet

17 members

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19

Buddha's Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet

by Mikel Dunham

64 members

2 reviews

3.8

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20

Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon

by Eleanor Cooney

37 members

½ 2.7

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21

Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival

by John Kenneth Knaus

76 members

½ 3.3

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22

The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa

92 members

3.9

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23

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

581 members

6 reviews

3.9

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24

The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet

by Kate Teltscher

101 members

2 reviews

4

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25

Journey Across Tibet: A Young Woman's Trek Across the Rooftop of the World

by Sorrel Wilby

115 members

3.9

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26

Tibet's Sacred Mountain: The Extraordinary Pilgrimage to Mount Kailas

by Russell Johnson

12 members

5

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27

A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World

by Peter Kingsley

66 members

2 reviews

3.8

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28

Ancient Wisdom, Living Tradition: The Spirit of Tibet in the Himalayas

by Marcia Keegan

11 members

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29

LAND OF A THOUSAND BUDDHAS

by Theos Bernard

1 member

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30

Theos Bernard, the White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life

by Paul G. Hackett

30 members

3

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31

The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane: Wisdom Tales from Tibet

167 members

1 review

3.9

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32

Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows

43 members

1 review

4

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33

The Opening of Tibet

by Perceval Landon

27 members

5

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34

Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet

by Janice D. Willis

71 members

1 review

4

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35

What the Lotus Said: A Journey to Tibet and Back

by Eric Swanson

21 members

2 reviews

3

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36

Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)

by Anne-Marie Blondeau

30 members

½ 4.3

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37

Enthronement: The Recognition of the Reincarnate Masters of Tibet and the Himalayas

by Jamgon Kongtrul

43 members

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38

The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices

by Barbara Foster

77 members

3.2

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39

Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: and Other Encounters in China and Tibet

by Lincoln Kaye

57 members

1 review

3.2

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40

Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu Kangri

by Chris Bonington

81 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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41

The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 (Compass)

by Tsering Shakya

247 members

3 reviews

4

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42

Land of the lamas;: Adventures in secret Tibet

by Peter Goullart

11 members

1 review

4

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43

The Seven Sisters of India: Tribal Worlds Between Tibet and Burma (African, Asian & Oceanic Art)

by Peter van Ham

9 members

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44

Tibet: Journey to the Forbidden City : Retracing the Steps of Alexandra David-Neel

by Tiziana Baldizzone

37 members

1 review

2.8

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45

Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix

by Jeffrey Hopkins

32 members

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46

Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet

by Galen Rowell

106 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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47

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood

by Orville Schell

88 members

1 review

½ 3.3

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48

Caravans of the Himalaya

15 members

4

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49

Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World

by David Zurick

15 members

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50

Bhutan : kingdom in the Himalaya

by Sanjay Acharya

27 members

4

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51

Himalaya: A Human History

173 members

2 reviews

4

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52

by Herbert Tichy

10 members

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53

by Jonathan Neale

5 members

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54

Himalayan Architecture

by Ronald M. Bernier

3 members

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55

Account of Koonawur in the Himalaya

by Alexander Gerard

1 member

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56

The Wheel of Darkness

by Douglas Preston

3,457 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

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57

A Cultural History of Tibet

by David L. Snellgrove

136 members

1 review

3.8

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58

by Ganesh Saili

10 members

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59

Around the roof of the world

by Nicholas Shoumatoff

2 members

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60

Tibetan Rescue: The Extraordinary Quest to Save the Sacred Art Treasures of Tibet

by Pamela Logan

23 members

½ 3.5

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61

Tibet: Through the Red Box

548 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

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62

A Portrait of Lost Tibet

by Rosemary Jones Tung

71 members

3 reviews

4

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63

20 members

1 review

3

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64

Tibet: a chronicle of exploration

by John H. Waller

19 members

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65

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

1,017 members

58 reviews

3.9

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66

The splendors of Tibet

by Audrey Topping

13 members

5

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67

by Thubten Jigme Norbu

132 members

½ 3.6

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68

To a Mountain in Tibet

by Colin Thubron

482 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

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69

by Kazuyoshi Nomachi

29 members

4

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70

My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of How One Young Blind Woman Brought Hope to the Blind Children of Tibet

by Sabriye Tenberken

98 members

4 reviews

3.8

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71

Tibet; Today and Yesterday

by Tieh-Tseng Li

2 members

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72

Tibet: The Road Ahead

43 members

1.8

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73

28 members

3

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74

by Fosco Maraini

154 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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75

Tibet: Life, Myth, and Art (Stewart, Tabori & Chang's Life, Myth, and Art)

by Michael Willis

161 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

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76

Tibet and the Tibetans

by Shen Tsung-lien and Liu Shen-chi

1 member

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77

The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala

415 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

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78

Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton

by Douglas Wissing

18 members

4

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79

Bayonets to Lhasa

by Peter Fleming

130 members

1 review

4

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80

Tibet Since 1950: Silence, Prison or Exile

by Steven Marshall

30 members

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81

Prisoner in Red Tibet

by Sydney Wignall

6 members

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82

A Naturalist in Hindustan

by R.W.G. Hingston

1 member

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83

The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

by Mark Synnott

202 members

8 reviews

3.8

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84

The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them

by Elizabeth Sarah Mazuchelli

1 member

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85

A Step Away from Paradise: The True Story of a Tibetan Lama's Journey to a Land of Immortality

by Thomas K. Shor

45 members

4.1

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86

Wisdom Stories of Tibet: Tales of Magic, Adventure, and Bravery

by Laura Burges

13 members

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87

Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People

37 members

1 review

5

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88

The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent

by Mick Conefrey

75 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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89

The Secret of the Himalayas (The Unicorn Rescue Society)

by Adam Gidwitz

55 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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90

The Folded Earth

by Anuradha Roy

249 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

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91

Lost Horizon (Forgotten City)

by Michael Ford

10 members

½ 2.5

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92

Lost Horizon, Author's Edition

by James Hilton

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93

The Snow Leopard

by Peter Matthiessen

3,071 members

55 reviews

4

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94

Tibet, a lost world : the Newark Museum collection of Tibetan art and ethnography

by Valrae Reynolds

23 members

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95

The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition

19 members

5

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96

The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama

by Thomas Laird

314 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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January 2025
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