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ICYMI here's a 🧵of titles on our Summer #TibetReadingList which we published last week - you can see the whole list on our website too!

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First in our broadly categorised #Buddhism section on #TibetReadingList is "Under the Shadow of White Tara: #Buriat Buddhists in Imperial #Russia" by Nikolay Tsyrempilov published in May 2021 by the @FSchoeningh Publishing House.

Available on Amazon here: amzn.to/3x9YvTo

Published by @OxUniPress in April 2021, “The Dalai Lama and the #Nechung Oracle” by Christopher Bell offers the most sustained discussion and history of the Nechung Oracle to date #TibetReadingList

Available on Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9780197…

Next on the Summer #TibetReadingList is the open access title “Bringing #Buddhism to #Tibet: History and Narrative in the DBA’ BZHED Manuscript” By @LewisDoney (ed.) @DeGruyterOA #openaccess

Available for download here: degruyter.com/view/title/591…

The newest edition of Dan Martin’s classic work “#Tibetan Histories” was published earlier this year on the website of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center @KeepWisdomAlive #TibetReadingList

Visit the site for book download links: bdrc.io/blog/2020/12/2…

Published in March 2021 by @ColumbiaUP “A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s Mindröling Monastery” by @dominique_fox77 investigates the ritual, artistic, cultural practices inculcated at Mindröling #TibetReadingList

On Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9780231…

Published by @ShambhalaPubs, “Voices from #LarungGar: Shaping #Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century” is the first collection of talks and writings by the leading voices of the largest Buddhist institution on the plateau #TibetReadingList

Visit uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9781611…

Published by @dompublishers, “Chörten in #Nepal: Architecture and Buddhist Votive Practice in the Himalaya” by Niels Gutschow is dedicated to this representation of the Buddha and teachings in the shape of an impassable building #TibetReadingList

Amazon: amzn.to/3x7CC76

Published by @WindhorsePubs in June 2021, “I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism” By Alice Collett offers a new introduction to women in Buddhism #TibetReadingList

Available on Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9781911…

Originally published in January 2021, “The Sakya Jetsunmas: The Hidden World of #Tibetan Female Lamas” by Elisabeth Benard is the first full treatment of the role of remarkable women in the #Sakya school #TibetReadingList

Read more here sapanfund.org/pages/index.php

Heading up the Biography section of the #TibetReadingList is "A Childhood in #Tibet: A Biography” by Thérèse Obrecht Hodler, published in May 2021 by @PenguinIndia this is the story of Tendöl Namling.

Available on Amazon here: amzn.to/2V7gGvL

Published in November 2020,”Road to Freedom - A Journey from Occupied #Tibet: The True Story of the Search, Discovery, and Escape of a Reincarnate Lama” by Marya Waifoon Schwabe is the story of #Nechung Rinpoche #TibetReadingList

Avail on Amazon here: amzn.to/375BN4b

Published in April 2021 by @ColumbiaUP, “Lineages of the Literary” by @NicoleWillock looks at three Tibetan Buddhist scholars, renowned as the “Three Polymaths,” Tséten Zhabdrung, Mugé Samten and Dungkar Lozang Trinlé #TibetReadingList

On Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9780231…

Published in April 2021 by micropress Albion Books, this poetry chapbook by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa contains 29 poems. #TibetReadingList

Sadly, the chapbook is already out of print! albionbooks.net/revolute/

Published by @routledgebooks in February 2021, “The Selfless Ego” is an essay collection that propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing #TibetReadingList

Available on Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9780367…

We're entering into the Politics and History section of the #TibetReadingList and we start with “The Fifth Dalai Lama And His First Three Administrators” by the late Sean Jones and published by @vajra_books in March 2021

Available on Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9789937…

Published as an e-book by @TibetCouncil in August 2020, “Tibet 1985: The Last Fact-Finding Delegation” by Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha is a personal account of his historic tour to Tibet in 1985 #TibetReadingList

Download from here atc.org.au/tibet-1985/

Published in June 2021 by @SerindiaGallery, “The Royal History of #Sikkim: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal” was written in Tibetan at the turn of the 19th century and the English translation is now available!

See more here serindia.com/products/sikkim

Published in November 2020, “Tibet Brief 20/20” is a wakeup call that establishes a link between China’s current expansionism and the international community’s misguided appeasement on #Tibet.

Available on Amazon here: amzn.to/2UOUFBZ

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Published by @SaveTibetOrg in Feb 2021, “#Tibet in Chains: The Stories of 9 Tibetan Nuns” are the stories of nuns who bravely resisted China’s oppression through nonviolent protests and songs, even as they endured horrific abuse in prison.

Download here: savetibet.org/wp-content/upl…

Published by @CambridgeUP in January 2021, “The Frontier Complex” by @kylejgardner is the first comprehensive history of #Ladakh's encounter with the British Empire.

Available on Bookshop here
uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9781108…

Published in May 2021 by @PenguinIndia, “Nehru, Tibet and China” by Avtar Singh Bhasin analyses the events from 1949 to the Indo-China war in 1962 and its aftermath #TibetReadingList

Available on Amazon here: amzn.to/3zATfda

We're now in the Anthropology, Ethnography and Science section of the #TibetReadingList and we start with the open access title “Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in #Tibetan Medical Practice” by Barbara Gerke.

Download the e-book via heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/7…

Published by Prague’s Oriental Inst, "Mapping #Amdo – “Dynamics of Power”addresses cultural and political spheres of influence and discusses econ, cultural, and sociopol aspects of power as executed by various players throughout Amdo history

Available shop.orient.cas.cz/index.php?id_p…

These three titles by archaeologist and cultural historian John Vincent Bellezza are historical, ethnographic and archaeological studies of #Tibet

More details here bit.ly/3lnAQg5

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Our final category is for "Younger Audiences" and the first title is The Four Harmonious Friends མཐུན་པ་སྤུན་བཞི། published by Awa Books #TibetReadingList

Tibetan English edition: amzn.to/3iN6l07
Tibetan German edition: amzn.to/3BTRXvU

Published by @WisdomPubs, in “The Extraordinary Life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama: An Illuminated Journey” @DalaiLama tells the story of his life with stunning illustrations by artist Rima Fujita. #TibetReadingList

On Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9781614…

Released on Amazon Kindle in December 2020, “The Snow Leopard’s New Friend” by Michael Buckley is an introduction to the amazing animals of the Tibetan Plateau!

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Available on Amazon here: amzn.to/3kZ5HiT

Published in May 2021 by @PenguinIndia and edited by Renuka Singh, in this volume, His Holiness shares words of encouragement to deal with new realities in a pandemic stricken world. #TibetReadingList

Available on Bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/a/4863/9780670…

Available via Apple Books, this digital photobook was published in December 2020. “This Fragile Planet” features 80 inspiring quotations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on environment. #TibetReadingList

Available via Apple Books: books.apple.com/gb/book/this-f…

That's a wrap for the 2021 Summer #TibetReadingList, thanks for sticking with this thread!

We always enjoy hearing about what you're reading. Please send us any recommendations for the next List which will be out towards the end of the year!

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