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This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to an understudied but central corpus of material in Chinese and Tibetan religion.
This book illuminates Japan’s colonial administration at work in general, and the role of Taiwan in the context of Japan’s colonial empire-making in particular.
Using official government sources, private papers and the diaries and memoirs of those involved, this book examines the impact of Younghunsband's invasion and its aftermath inside Tibet.
This book analyzes Tibetan medicine in the twenty-first century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and asking how Tibetan medicine fits into the globalized context of the medical world today. 'Winner of the ICAS Colleagues Choice Award 2009"
This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature. Filling a significant gap, this is the first... Læs mere
In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the eatural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism.
In this book, Massimo Rondolino shows how in the social and religious... Læs mere