A Handbook Of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Handbook Of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World
By (Author) Graham Coleman
Ebury Publishing
Rider & Co
26th January 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
951.5
Physical Properties
Paperback
430
Width 129mm, Height 215mm, Spine 30mm
1813g
Description
The first encyclopaedic reference guide to Tibetan cultural resources worldwide. Over the past nine years the Orient Foundation has compiled a database that brings together information on over 600 Tibetan-related organizations throughtout the world. Compiled under the auspices of HH The Dalai Lama, this book provided comprehensive information about Tibetan Buddhism and culture for the general public including- Museums, teaching centres, retreat centres and publications listed in a country-by-country gazetteer. Background information on the four schools of Tibetan Biddhism Biographies of practising Tibetan teachers The First glossary of Tibetan terms
Author Bio
Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture(UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. He has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the mid-1970s, and is the writer and director of the acclaimed feature documentary 'Tibet - A Buddhist Trilogy'.
