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Book Kinnaur  a Restricted Land in the Himalaya

Download or read book Kinnaur a Restricted Land in the Himalaya written by Shiva Chandra Bajpai and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study Describes The Land And People Of Kinnaur, Remote District Of Himachal Pradesh. A Valuable Addition To The Meagre Literature On The Himalayan People, It Will Be Of Interest To Students Of Anthropology, Sociology And History, Besides Tourists And Mountaineers.

Book Account of Koonawur  in the Himalaya  Etc  Etc  Etc

Download or read book Account of Koonawur in the Himalaya Etc Etc Etc written by Alexander Gerard and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Mine Of Information On The Enchanting Land Of Kinnaur And Adjoining Areas In The Himalaya.

Book Hill Resorts of U P  Himalaya

Download or read book Hill Resorts of U P Himalaya written by Nutan Tyagi and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hill resorts in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Book The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas

Download or read book The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas written by Anju Saxena and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.

Book The Splendour of Himalayan Art and Culture

Download or read book The Splendour of Himalayan Art and Culture written by Aśoka Jeratha and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Himalayas are a source of inspiration and challenge to the researchers, intellectuals and adventurers. The lofty mountains with snow-clad peaks and lush green forests fascinate one and all. This work on the art and culture of people of the Himalayan region is fourth in sequence by the author. After Folk Art of Duggar; Ripples in the Himalayas; and Rajat Shikhron Ke Rupehle Swar, this work completes the first phase of studies of Himalayan culture. Earlier Kumaon, Garhwal, Kashmir and Ladakh Himalayas and their ranges were covered in detail. With the inclusion of Dhauladhar ranges and nearby surroundings of Kangra, Palampur, Baijnath, Mandi, Kullu, Manali, Lahaul & Spiti, Kinnaur and upper regions of Shimla in this book, it completes the studies of western Himalayas. The author has visited himself in most of these areas and collected the data so that first hand information can be provided to the readers. In a way it is a first endeavour in this field wherein the people and the land are discussed collectively for the first time. However, individual tribes of Himachal Pradesh do find their place in sociological studies done in the field, but we do not find a comparative study for which an objective effort has been made in this book for the benefit of readers and art historians alike. The book covers the art, architecture and cultural aspects of Himachal Pradesh. References have also been made to Basohli, Jammu, Manket, etc. as the Pahari art of minature paintings had its own legacy in these erstwhile kingdoms." -- Cover description.

Book Kinnaur in the Himalayas Mythology to Modernity

Download or read book Kinnaur in the Himalayas Mythology to Modernity written by Shiva Chandra Bajpai and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tourism in Ladakh Himalaya

Download or read book Tourism in Ladakh Himalaya written by Prem Singh Jina and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Kinnaur in the Trans Himalaya

Download or read book Exploring Kinnaur in the Trans Himalaya written by Deepak Sanan and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Provides An Overview Of The Land, Its People, Rich Cultural Heritage And The Numerous Trekking Routes Which Criss-Cross Kinnaur And Spiti.

Book The Emergence of Himachal Pradesh

Download or read book The Emergence of Himachal Pradesh written by V. Verma and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Work Will Be Of Great Interest To Scholars, Teachers And Students Of The History Of Himachal Pradesh, Of Indian Constitutional History And Indian Politics.

Book Tourism in Garhwal Himalaya

Download or read book Tourism in Garhwal Himalaya written by Harshwanti Bisht and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NAKO

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabriela Krist
  • Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
  • Release : 2016-10-10
  • ISBN : 3205202678
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book NAKO written by Gabriela Krist and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nako temple complex from the 12th century is an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism not anymore preserved in today’s Tibet. Endangered by the rough environment, improper treatment and frequent earthquakes, the outstanding monuments were re-discovered by scholars from Austrian universities in the 1980s. The transdisciplinary research project carried out over more than 20 years led to in-depth studies, preservation and model-like conservation of the temples and their artworks.

Book Renunciation and Longing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annabella Pitkin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-05-20
  • ISBN : 0226816915
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Renunciation and Longing written by Annabella Pitkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this elusive wandering renunciant became a revered teacher of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At Khunu Lama’s death in 1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American meditators alike. The many surviving stories about him reveal significant dimensions of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on questions of religious affect and memory that reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In Renunciation and Longing, Annabella Pitkin explores devotion, renunciation, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as resources for understanding Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, affective connection, and mourning. Refuting long-standing caricatures of Tibetan Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist narrators have used themes of renunciation, devotion, and lineage as touchstones for negotiating loss and vitalizing continuity.

Book The Himalayan Journal

Download or read book The Himalayan Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kinnaur

    Book Details:
  • Author : Omacanda Hāṇḍā
  • Publisher : Indus Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9788173872235
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Kinnaur written by Omacanda Hāṇḍā and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinnaur has been an enchanting land of legends, inhabited by charismatic people. Nature has bestowed it with its choicest bounties floral and faunal extravaganza, lush green and snow-crested ranges, polychromatic geological formations and the verdant oasis amidst the stark arid wilderness. Generations of its inhabitants have adorned it with exotic wooden temples and monasteries, beautiful arts and handicrafts, steeped in nostalgic aroma and colourful lifestyle. It has been the cynosure of all eyes since ages. This land and its enigmatic inhabitants have figured variously in the classical literature. That type of imagery has lingered on even to our times. It was only since the pre-modern times that tangible efforts to remove the mist over this terra incognita were made by many explorers and travellers, who ventured into this area and wrote about it, but in wondrous awe. Obviously, since ages past, people of various ethnicities, diverse persuasions and varied interests have been drawn towards this legendary land of umpteen charms. Be it a trekker or hiker, mountaineer or nature-lover, peace-seeker or pilgrim, artist or scientist, sociologist or anthropologist, it has been beckoning all. Certainly, it is a blessed land of many thrills, pleasant surprises and endless attractions. In the present book, all those aspects, blended with nostalgic aroma of history, have been lucidly discussed. An in-depth study of the land, its people and their enchanting arts, handicrafts and architecture has been made. Many complex ethnic, social and cultural riddles have been analysed and explained objectively. Besides, the challenges of environmental degradation and cultural erosion confronting Kinnaur have been boldly highlighted. This book on Kinnaur, complete in itself, will be useful and interesting to the sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, and the general readers.

Book Britain and Tibet 1765 1947

Download or read book Britain and Tibet 1765 1947 written by Julie G. Marshall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period 1765 to 1947. As such it also involves British relations with Russia and China, and with the Himalayan states of Ladakh, Lahul and Spiti, Kumaon and Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam, in so far as British policy towards these states was affected by her desire to establish relations with Tibet. It also covers a subject of some importance in contemporary diplomacy. It was the legacy of unresolved problems concerning Tibet and its borders, bequeathed to India by Britain in 1947, which led to border disputes and ultimately to war between India and China in 1962. These borders are still in dispute today. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and article in their historical context. Most entries are also annotated. This work is therefore both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.

Book Britain and Tibet 1765 1947

Download or read book Britain and Tibet 1765 1947 written by Julie Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and articles in their historical context. This work is both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.

Book Peoples of the Buddhist World

Download or read book Peoples of the Buddhist World written by Paul Hattaway and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 20 years, Christians around the world have launched initiatives to reach Muslims, Communists, Hindus and other major unreached people groups but the Buddhist world has largely been overlooked. Hundreds of millions of Buddhists continue to live and die without any exposure to the Gospel. In Peoples of the Buddhist World, researcher and author Paul Hattaway graphically presents prayer profiles of more than 200 Buddhist people groups around the world, beautifully illustrated with color pictures throughout. In addition, experts have contributed articles on various aspects of Buddhism, helping the reader to learn, pray and work until that day when "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11:15).--From publisher's description.