Tibet : an inner journey / Matthieu Ricard.
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2012Description: 1 v. col. ill., col. ports.; 17 x 19 cm001: 14771ISBN: 0500289050; 9780500289051Uniform titles: Tibet. English Subject(s): Ricard, Matthieu -- Homes and haunts -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region | Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Pictorial works | Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Pictorial works | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religion -- Pictorial works | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religion | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works | Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 951.505| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 951.5 RIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 089334 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Tibet is the Roof of the World, a place where you feel that you are in the sky just as much are you are on the earth. The intense blueness of space contrasts sharply with the deep green of eastern Tibet's rolling grasslands and the mineral colours of the west with its expanses of barren rock. For over a thousand years, Buddhist culture has been at the heart of Tibetan society, and anyone who has travelled across these high plateaux will understand how this contemplative civilization flourished in a landscape of such vastness.
Matthieu Ricard's Tibet seeks to bear witness to all that survives of that ancient world - a world capable of making a valuable contribution to contemporary life. It also aims to provide a glimpse of a unique culture that is desperately trying to preserve its authenticity, despite the major upheavals that have shaken the land of its birth.
Originally published: 2006.
Translated from the French.
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