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This book examines the role of Muslims in Amdo society. The contributors challenge established stereotypes of TibetanMuslim relations and explore historical, socio-economic, political, religious, and linguistic aspects of Tibetan, Muslim, and Chinese interactions in this borderland region.

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This book examines the role of Muslims in Amdo society. The contributors challenge established stereotypes of TibetanMuslim relations and explore historical, socio-economic, political, religious, and linguistic aspects of Tibetan, Muslim, and Chinese interactions in this borderland region.

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This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibets oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.

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This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibets oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.

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This is the first English translation of a Dalai Lama's biography, and is highly significant for the historical study of the Gaden Phodrang period, around the turn of the seventeenth century. It is not only a biography, but a historical narrative of a legendary character, and illustrates the nature and understanding of Tibetan hagiographical and mystical literature within a sociopolitical context.

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This is the first English translation of a Dalai Lama's biography, and is highly significant for the historical study of the Gaden Phodrang period, around the turn of the seventeenth century. It is not only a biography, but a historical narrative of a legendary character, and illustrates the nature and understanding of Tibetan hagiographical and mystical literature within a sociopolitical context.

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This book examines the life of the Sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.

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This book presents a case study of the ascendancy of Gnpo Namgyel, a minor Tibetan chieftain in Kham who had a great impact on Sino-Tibetan relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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In weaving together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection, this book shows Tibetans as both products of an admirable culture and as complex individuals negotiating religious ideals, economic change, and sociopolitical constraints. In short, it opens up a whole new way of understanding Tibet.

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Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, and development. Drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, this book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity.