Download or read book Soviet Russia and Tibet written by Alexandre Andreyev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first investigation into the little-known Bolshevik foreign ministry’s strenuous efforts to win Lhasa over to the Soviet cause in the 1920s. Examining the history of relations between Russia (tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet) and Tibet from the 17th century to the 1990s, the author puts at the core of his narrative the previously unknown story of clandestine negotiations between the Soviet government and the 13th Dalai Lama, forming part of Moscow’s bitter struggle against British imperialism in Asia. The book provides insight into Soviet secret diplomacy and draws important conclusions relating to the history of Anglo-Russian competition for Tibet and Tibet’s status prior to 1951.
Download or read book First Russia Then Tibet written by Robert Byron and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "First Russia, Then Tibet" by Robert Byron. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book First Russia Then Tibet written by Robert Byron and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Robert Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj. Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took a week, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Gandhi was imprisoned, while rioting and clashes between Hindus and Muslims had become commonplace. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country. Exploring the Land of Snows, he saw Tibet as it was when the then Dalai Lama was still ensconced in the Potala Palace, twenty years before China's invasion. As a piece of travel literature, First Russia, Then Tibet is compelling and beautifully written. As a portrait of these countries in the 1930s, it is invaluable. Ultimately, it illuminates the constant quest for meaning that underscored Robert Byron's life and travels.
Download or read book The Revolt in Tibet written by Francis Robert Moraes and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1960 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the rebellion which broke out in Tibet in March 1959, and a short political history of Tibet.
Download or read book Russia s Tibet File written by Nikolaĭ Stepanovich Kuleshov and published by Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia written by Fernanda Pirie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the agency of those who shape and manipulate conflict and social order and their historical, cultural and religious resources, the contributors discuss evidence of social continuity, as well as the recreation of social order. Engaging with anthropological debates on conflict and social order, this volume provides an original comparative perspective on both Tibet and Inner Asia.
Download or read book Tibet written by Tatʹi︠a︡na Lʹvovna Shaumi︠a︡n and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Contains New And Vital Information That The Author Has Gathered From Original Sources In The Foreign Policy Archives Of The Russian Empire And The National Archives Of India And Is A Must For Those Intrested In The History Of Tibet And In The Politics Of The `Great Game`.
Download or read book Red Shambhala written by Andrei Znamenski and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts how the Soviet Communists of the 1920s sought to extend their influence over Mongolia and Tibet, using the ancient Buddhist myth of Shambhala as a form of propoganda to further their aims.
Download or read book First Russia Then Tibet Large Print written by Robert Byron and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, this text is a fascinating account of Robert Byron's travels in the Russia, India and Tibet of the time. The narrative of travels and descriptions of environment are first-rate and beautifully written. One of the great early examples of the travel-writing genre!
Download or read book Reviews on Tibetan Political History written by Ms Tenzin Dolma and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ----
Download or read book Resistance and Reform in Tibet written by Shirin Akiner and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibet exerts a powerful fascination far beyond its borders; remoteness and the deeply pervasive character ot Tibetan Buddhism have provided the setting for countless works of romace adventure and fantasy. Resistance and Reform in Tibet reveals the emergence of a distinctive, modern Tibetan society and the sophistication, creativity and resourcefulness of its people`s responses to Chinese domination. Tibet today is neither a socialist idyll nor a regimented gulag but a rich mixture of traditonal and innovative strategies in an ancient nation`s struggle for survival.
Download or read book Communist China and Tibet written by George Ginsburgs and published by Springer. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The signing in Peking on May 27, 1951, of the 17-point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet marked the end of Tibet's latest forty-year interlude of de facto independence and formalized an arrangement which, although in some respects differing from the earlier relationship between China and Tibet, in principle but reimposed the former's traditional suzerainty over the latter. Since then, the course and pattern of relations between the Central Government and the so-called Local Government of Tibet have undergone a series of drastic reappraisals and readjustments, culmi nating in the rebellion of 1959 and the flight of the Dalai Lama to India. These events, together with the recent degeneration of the Sino-Indian border dispute into a full-fledged military confrontation, have served to dramatize the importance of Tibet from the point of view of global strategy and world diplomacy. Long before that, however, indeed ever since Tibet's occupation by the Chinese Red armies and the region's effective submission to Peking's authority, the Tibetan question had already assumed the status of a major political problem and that for a variety of good reasons, internal as well as international. From the vantage-point of domestic politics, the Tibetan issue was from the very start, and still is now, of prime significance on at least three counts.
Download or read book Into Tibet written by Thomas Laird and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating” story of espionage that “fills a blank space in the hidden history of the Cold War” (Houston Chronicle). Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949–1950 American undercover expedition led by America’s first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan—a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet’s independence months before China invaded. A Nepal-based American journalist reveals how the clash between the State Department and the CIA, as well as unguided actions by field agents, hastened the Chinese invasion of Tibet. A gripping narrative of survival, courage, and intrigue among the nomads, princes, and warring armies of inner Asia, Into Tibet rewrites the accepted history behind the Chinese invasion of Tibet. “A gripping tale.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book The Changing Face of Tibet written by Pradyumna Prasad Karan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise Of Russia In Asia written by David J. Dallin and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of Russia's involvement in Asia. Dallin escaped from Russia at an early age and studied its global policies for the rest of his life. A book that is a must read for any keen amateur historian or student of modern history.
Download or read book Tibet Under Communist China written by Central Tibetan Administration-in-Exile (India). Department of Information and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bodies in Balance written by Theresia Hofer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art. 2015 Best Art Book Accolade, ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities Category Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and complex system of understanding body and mind, treating illness, and fostering health and well-being. Sowa Rigpa has been influenced by Chinese, Indian, and Greco-Arab medical traditions but is distinct from them. Developed within the context of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine was adapted over centuries to different health needs and climates across the region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Mongolia. Its focus on a holistic approach to health has influenced Western medical thinking about the prevention, diagnoses, and treatment of illness. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art.
