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[Early Exploration and Travel].A Chronicle of Exploration. MACGREGOR, John .New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. [ Scholarly study of early travellers to Tibet from Friar Odoric in 1327 to Francis Younghusband in 1904.].

 

[History < 1900].A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions. RICHARDSON, Hugh E. .London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1985. .

 

[Tibetan Grammar].A Grammar of the Tibetan Language: Literary and Colloquial. HANNAH, Herbert Bruce .New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1912. .

 

[Kailas or Kailash].[Early Exploration and Travel].[Younghusband Expedition].A Hermit in the Himalayas. BRUNTON, Paul .Madras: , 1937. [ One man's solitary trek through India and the Himalayas in the early 20thC. Includes an expedition to Mt. Kailas.].

 

[History > 1950].A History of Modern Tibet. GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn .Berkeley: University of California, 1989. .

 

[Buddhism - Meditation].A Meditation Handbook. GYATSO, Geshe Kelsang .: Tharpa Publications, . .

 

[History > 1950].[Panchen Lama - 10th].[Chinese Invasion].A Poisoned Arrow: the secret report of the 10th Panchen Lama. 10TH PANCHEN LAMA,  .London: Tibet Information Network, 1998. [ Famous 70,000 character report delivered by the Panchen Lama to Mao Zedong in 1962, detailing the suffering imposed upon the Tibetan people by Chinese communism.].

 

[Buddhism - History in Tibet].A Short Biography and Letter of Je Tzong-K'a-Pa. TRANSLATION BUREAU, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives .Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1975. .

 

[History > 1900 < 1950].[Lhasa].[Monks and Nuns].A Stranger in Tibet. BERRY, Scott .London, UK: Flamingo, 1990. [ Japanese Zen monk named Kawaguchi Ekai travelled throughout Tibet in disguise in 1900.].

 

[Lhasa].[Early Exploration and Travel].A Tibetan on Tibet. COMBE, G A .London: Unwin, 1926. [ Subtitled  Being the Travels and Observations of Mr. Paul Sherap -Dorje Zobda- of Tachienlu; with an introductory Chapter on Buddhism and a Concluding Chapter on Devil Dance .].

 

[Lhasa].[Early Exploration and Travel].Across Thibet. BONVALOT, Gabriel .New York: Cassell, 1892. [ Translation of  De Paris Au Tonking a Travers Le Tibet Inconnu .].

 

[Early Exploration and Travel].[Younghusband Expedition].[Womens' Exploration].Alluring Target. WIMMEL, Kenneth .Washington: Trackless Sands, 1996. .

 

[Mount Everest].Americans on Everest: The Official Account of the ascent led by Norman G. Dyhrenfurth. ULLMAN, James Ramsey .Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1964. .

 

[Weapons & Military History].An Approach to the study of arms and armour from Tibet. LAROCCA, Donald J. .: , . [ Royal Armouries Yearbook, vol 4, Royal Armouries, Leeds, 1999, pp 113-132.].

 

[Ancient].Ancient Tibet: Research Materials from the Yeshe De Project. ,  .Berkeley: Dharma, 1986. [ Detailed exploration of Tibetan history from formation of Tibetan plateau to the ninth century. Has some nice tables comparing what was happening in Tibet with the rest of the world.].

 

[Weapons & Military History].Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era 1050-1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia. NICOLLE, David .London: Greenhill Books, 1999. .

 

[Thanka painting].Art of Tibet. PAL, Pratapaditya &  H. E. Richardson and Dale Carolyn Gluckman.Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990. [ Complete catalogue with explanatory text and illustrations of Los Angeles Museum of Art Tibetan Art collection. Originally published 1983 with expanded edition published 1990. Expanded edition includes Richardson's rare work on Thanka inscriptions.].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment: An Oral Teaching. RINCHEN, Geshe Sonam &  Ruth Sonam (trans).Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1997. [ Atisha.].

 

[Prisoners].[Human Rights].[Autobiographies - Monks and Nuns].Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk. GYATSO, Palden .London, UK: Harvill Press, 1997. [ Published in UK as Fire Under The Snow. Harrowing and depressing account of an ordinary Tibetan monk who spent over 30 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps.].

 

[Younghusband Expedition].Bayonets to Lhasa: The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904. FLEMING, Peter .New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. [ Later account of Younghusband expedition.].

 

[Bhutan].Bhutan: Land of Hidden Treasures. OLSCHAK, Blanche C. &  Ursula and Augusto Gansser (Photog).New York: Stein & Day, 1971. .

 

[Autobiographies - Lamas].Book of Tibetan Elders: Life Stories and Wisdom from the Great Spiritual Masters of Tibet. JOHNSON, Sandy .New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. .

 

[Autobiographies - Lamas].Born In Tibet, as told to Esme Cramer Roberts with a foreword by Marco Pallis. TRUNGPA, Chogyam .London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966. [ Chogyam Trungpa has written many books and commentaries on Tibetan Buddhism. This is his autobiography, which has been published in many forms but is now out of print.].

 

[History < 1900].British India and Tibet, 1766-1910. LAMB, Alistair .London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. .

 

[Contemporary Conditions].Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn C. &  Matthew T. Kapstein and Orville Schell.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. [ 5 case studies of religious revival in contemporary Tibet.].

 

[Handbooks].Buddhism: A Richly Illustrated Voyage into the Heart of the Buddhist Tradition. SNELLING, John .: Element, . .

 

[Buddhism - History in Tibet].[Buddhism - Practices and Rites].Buddhism: its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects. EITEL, Ernest J .London: Trubner, 1873. [ History and theory of Buddhism. Includes Tibetan Buddhism.].

 

[Arts].Buddhist Art and Architecture. FISHER, Robert E. .London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Buddhist Scriptures. CONZE (TRANSLATOR), Edward .London, UK: Penguin Classics, 1959. [ Selections from Dharmapada, Buddhacarita, Questions of King Milinda and Tibetan Book of the Dead. Not exclusively Tibetan Buddhism.].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Buddhist Texts Through the Ages. CONZE, Edward (ed) &  I. B. Horner, David Snellgrove and Arthur Waley.New York: Harper, 1964. .

 

[Arts].Catalogue of the Tibetan Collection and other Lamaist Articles in The Newark Museum. NEWARK MUSEUM,  .Newark: Newark Museum, 1973. .

 

[Early Exploration and Travel].[Lhasa].[Northern Tibet].Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lhasa. HEDIN, Sven .London: Hurst, 1903. [ Trek from Kashgar, through Tibet from north to south, visit to Lhasa to Ladakh.].

 

[History < 1900].China and Tibet in the early 18th Century: History of the establishment of Chinese protectorate in Tibet. PETECH, L. .Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1950. [ Monographies du T'Oung Pao Volume I.].

 

[Anthropology].[China].China's Minorities: Yesterday and Today. EBERHARD, Wolfraum .: Wadsworth, 1982. .

 

[Contemporary Conditions].[Autobiographies - Women].China's Reforms of Tibet and the Effect on Pastoralism. CLARKE, G.E. .University of Sussex: Institute of Development Studies Paper no. 237, 1987. .

 

[Contemporary Conditions].[Human Rights].[Resistance Fighters].Circle of Protest. SCHWARTZ, Ron .Indiana: Hursts / University of Indiana, 1994. .

 

[Kailas or Kailash].Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas. THURMAN, Robert &  Tad Wise.New York: Bantam, 1999. .

 

[Ladakh].Crafts of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh. JAITLY, Jaya &  Kamal Sahai.New York: Abbeville Press, 1990. [ Textiles, Jewellery, basket weavimg etc.].

 

[Contemporary Conditions].[Human Rights].Cutting off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet 1994-5. TIN / HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH,  .London: , 1996. .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. TRUNGPA, Chogyam &  John Baker and Marvin Casper (eds).Berkeley: Shambhala, 1973. .

 

[Fiction - written by westerners].Darkness Over Tibet. ILLION, T .Talent: Eastern School Press, 1983. .

 

[Autobiographies - Women].[Lhasa].[Dharamsala].Daughter of Tibet: The Autobiography of Rinchen Dolma Taring. TARING, Rinchen Dolma .London: Wisdom, 1986. [ Rinchen Dolma Taring was daughter of one of the oldest noble families in Tibet. Born 1910, escaped to India 1959. This was originally published 1970. Reprinted with additional material.].

 

[Human Rights].Defying the Dragon: China and Human Rights in Tibet. ,  .: TIN/ LAWASIA, 1991. .

 

[Contemporary Conditions].Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of Snows. FEIGNON, Lee .Chicago: Elephant Books, 1998. [ Superficial review of Tibetan history and contemporary conditions, especially with relation to Chinese.].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Dhammapada: The Sayings of Buddha. Translated from the original Pali. CLEARY, Thomas (Trans.) .New York: Bantam/ Wisdom, 1995. .

 

[Arts].Divine Images Human Visions: The Max Tanenbaum Collection of South Asian and Himalayan Art in the National Gallery of Canada. PAL, Pratapraditya .National Gallery of Canada: Calgary, 1997. .

 

[Missionary Writings].Dogs May Bark but the Caravan Moves On. MORSE, Gertrude &  Helen M. Morse.unknown: North Burma Christian Mission, 1998. [ Story of Gertrude Morse and her husband Russell who succeeded the Shelton family at the Christian mission at Batang. They travelled into Tibet in 1925-6.].

 

[Education].Education in Tibet: Policy and Practice Since 1950. BASS, Catriona .London: Tibet Information Network, 1998. .

 

[Tibetan Dictionaries].English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn C. .Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. [ Recently (1999) revised and reprinted by LTWA].

 

[Environment].Environmental Materials on Tibet. ACKERLEY, John (ed) .: ICT, 1991. .

 

[Learning Tibetan].Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar. GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn &  Gelek Rinpoche and Lobsang Phuntshog.: University of California Press, . .

 

[Dalai Lama - 14th].[Buddhism - Texts].Ethics for the New Millenium. DALAI LAMA, His Holiness .New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. .

 

[Arts].Evolution of the Buddha Image. ROWLAND, Benjamin .New York: Arno Press, 1963 (1976 repr). .

 

[Climbing].Extreme Continental: Blowing Hot and Cold Through Central Asia. WHITTELL, Giles .London: Indigo, 1996. [ Note: this is not about Tibet - about travel through ex-Soviet states of Central Asia.].

 

[Nomadic Way of Life].Fields on the Hoof: Nexus of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism. EKVALL, Robert .Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1968. .

 

[Learning Tibetan].Fluent Tibetan. MAGEE, William A. &  Elizabeth S. Napper, Jeffrey Hopkins.Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1993. [ Tapes and books for learning Lhasa dialect Tibetan, starting from scratch.].

 

[Nepal].[Mountains and Mountaineering].Footloose in the Himalya. HARDING, Mike .London: Michael Joseph, 1991. .

 

[Womens' Exploration].Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel. FOSTER, Barbara &  Michael Foster.San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987. .

 

[History < 1900].Four Lamas of Dolpo: Tibetan Biographies. SNELLGROVE, David L. .Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976. [ 3/4 lamas lived in 15th & 16th centuries; 4th lived 17th century].

 

[Autobiographies - Lamas].[Dalai Lama - 14th].Freedom in Exile. DALAI LAMA, His Holiness .San Francisco: Harper, 1991. .

 

[Photography > 1950].[Eastern Tibet].From Manchuria to Tibet: A Quarter Century of Exploration. WONG, How Man .New York: Odyssey, 1998. [ Lavish pictures of northeast Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Tibet.].

 

[Arts].From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum. REYNOLDS, Valrae &  Janet Gyatso, Amy Heller and Dan Martin.Munich: Prestel, 1999. [ Catalogue with series of essays on Tibetan religious/ artistic themes illustrated by collection of Newark Museum.].

 

[Ladakh].Golden Doorway to Tibet. SMITH, Nicol &  Loren Tutell (photographs).Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1949. [ Nicol Smith seems to have made a living travelling to out of the way places and giving lectures on them. This book is about a journey to Ladakh, which is ethnically Tibetan (to this day) but a part of India.].

 

[Tibetan Grammar].Grammar of Colloquial Tibetan. BELL, C. A. .Richmond: Curzon, 1996. [ Originally published 1905.].

 

[Buddhism - Tantra].Healing Image: The Great Black One. STABLEIN, William .Berkeley: SLG Books, 1991. [ Philosophiocal discussion of Mahakala cult and tantra, mainly in Nepal and India although Mahakala is a Tibetan Buddhist deity.].

 

[History < 1900].Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives: a study of Pemalingpa (1450-1521) and the Sixth Dalai Lama (1683-1706). ARIS, Michael .London: Kegan Paul Intl, 1989. .

 

[Nepal].High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. ORTNER, Sherry B. .Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. .

 

[Nepal].[Childrens Books].Himalaya: Vanishing Cultures. REYNOLDS, Jan .San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991. .

 

[Western Tibet].Himalayan Pilgrimage: A Study of Tibetan Religion by a Traveller Through Western Nepal. SNELLGROVE, David .Boston: Shambhala, 1989. [ Originally published 1981.].

 

[Mount Everest].[Mountains and Mountaineering].Himalayas. SHIRAKAWA, Yoshikazu &  Arnold Toynbee and  Sir Edmund Hilary.New York: Abradale Press / Harry Abrams, 1986. .

 

[Buddhism - History in Tibet].History of Buddhism (Chos-hbyung). Part I: The Jewellery of Scripture. BU-STON,  &  Dr. E. Obermiller (trans).Heidelberg: Kommission bei O. Harrassowitz, 1931. .

 

[Autobiographies - Women].[Autobiographies - Aristocrats].House of the Turquoise Roof. YUTHOK, Dorje Yudon .: Snow Lion, 1990. [ Autobiography of Dorje Yudon Yuthok, wife of Tibetan noble.].

 

[Buddhism - Meditation].How to Meditate: A Practical Guide. MCDONALD, Kathleen .Boston: Wisdom, 1984. .

 

[Contemporary Conditions].[Nomads].Impact of China's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet. GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn &  Cynthia Beall.: Asian Survey XXIX no. 6, . .

 

[Early Exploration and Travel].[Monks and Nuns].In the footsteps of Marco Polo. BRUCE, Clarence D .London: Blackwood, 1907. [ Subtitled  A Journey Overland from Simla to Peking .].

 

[Younghusband Expedition].India and Tibet. YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis .London: Murray, 1910. [ Account of 1903-7 British mission/ invasion led by Colonel Younghusband. Extensive account of political machinations between British, Tibetans, Chinese and Russia.].

 

[Buddhism - Practices and Rites].Initiations & Initiates in Tibet. DAVID-NEEL, Alexandra &  Fred Rothwell (Trans).New York: University Books, 1959. .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Insights of a Himalayan Pilgrim. GOVINDA, Lama Anagarika .Oakland: Dharma, 1991. [ Buddhist teachings by Lama Govinda on such subjects as pilgrimages, meditation and art.].

 

[Buddhism - Practices and Rites].Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. POWERS, John .Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1995. .

 

[Lhasa].[Shigatse].[Indian Exploration].Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet. DAS, Sarat Chandra .London: Murray, 1904. [ Exploration by Indian Pundit Sarat Chandra Das during the years 1879-81. Includes travel from Darjeeling to Shigatse, Lhasa, funeral of Panchen Lama (8th?), Samye, Yarlung and Sakya.].

 

[Nepal].Kailas: A Journal of Himalayan Studies. Volume 1, Number 3 (1973). ,  .kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1973. .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Keys to Great Enlightenment: Commentaries on Kadam Geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses of Thought Training and Bodhisattva Togmey Zangpo's The Thirty-Seven Bodhissatva Practices. GYELTSEN, Geshe Tsultim .Los Angeles: Thubten Dargye Ling, 1989. .

 

[Kumbum (Amdo)].Ku-Mbum-cham-ba-ling [Kumbum Monastery in Tibet]. YANG Qingxi,  .Qinghai: Nationality Publishing House of Qinghai, 1984. [ In Chinese and Tibetan with a small section of English text].

 

[Arts].[German language].Kunstgrewerbe in Tibet. BACOT, Jacques .Berlin: , 1924. [ Tibetan art, including bronzes and paintings.].

 

[Ladakh].Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. Second Edition. RIZVI, Janet .Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. [ Definitive account of contemporary Ladakh. Also includes history.].

 

[Arts].Lamaist Art: The Aesthetics of Harmony. PAL, Pratapaditya &  Hsien-Ch'i Tseng.Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, . .

 

[Autobiographies - Westerners].Land of a Thousand Buddhas: A Pilgrimage into the Heart of Tibet and the Sacred City of Lhasa. BERNARD, Theos .New York: Rider, 1952. .

 

[Lhasa].[Early Exploration and Travel].L'Asie Inconnue: A Travers Le Tibet et la Chine. BONVALOT, Gabriel .Paris: Flammarion, 1892. [ Journey across China and Tibet].

 

[Bibliography].Learning from the Dalai Lama: Secrets of the Wheel of Time. PANDELL, Karen &  Barry Bryant and John B. Taylor.: Dutton Children's Books, . .

 

[Tibetan Opera].Lhamo: Opera from the Roof of the World. ROSS, Joanna .New Delhi: Paljor Publications, 1995. .

 

[Chinese Viewpoint].Lhasa, The Open City: A Journey to Tibet. SUYIN, Han .New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1977. [ Account of Chinese writer's journey to Tibet in 1975.].

 

[Lhasa].[Photography > 1950].Lhasa: Tibet's Forbidden City. BRIGNOLI, Frank &  Christine Johnston Brignoli.Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1987. .

 

[Chinese Invasion].Life in the Red Flag People's Commune. CHOEDON, Dhondub .Dharamsala: Dharamsala Office of Information, 1987. .

 

[Photography < 1950].Lost Lhasa. HARRER, Heinrich .New York: Abrams, 1997. .

 

[Buddhism - Practices and Rites].[Buddhism - Tantra].[Autobiographies - Westerners].Magic & Mystery in Tibet. DAVID-NEEL, Alexandra .India: Harper Collins India, . [ Alexandra David-Neel lived in Sikkim studying Buddhism and travelled extensively in Tibet disguised as a beggar-pilgrim. This book is the story of some of the more fabulous people and places she encoutered, including  flying  monks.].

 

[Buddhism - Practices and Rites].Mantras: Sacred Words of Power. BLOFIELD, John .New York: E P Dutton, 1977. .

 

[Buddhism - History in Tibet].[Monks and Nuns].Masters of Meditation and Miracles: Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet. THONDUP, Tulku &  Harold Talbott (ed).Boston: Shambhala, 1999. .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Meditation In Action. TRUNGPA, Chogyam .Berkeley: Shambhala, 1969. [ Includes life of Buddha.].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists and the Art of the Self. KLEIN, Ann Carolyn .: Boston, . .

 

[Autobiographies - Lamas].[Government In Exile].[Dharamsala].Memoirs of a Tibetan Lama. GYATSO, Lobsang &  Graham Sparham.Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1998. [ Lobsang Gyatso was a monk and teacher in Dharamsala who was murdered in 1997 because of his outspoken opposition to the Dorje Shugden sect of Tibetan Buddhism.].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Mind in Buddhist Psychology. GUENTHER, Herbert V. &  Leslie S. Kawamura.Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 1975. .

 

[Learning Tibetan].Modern Spoken Tibetan: Lhasa Dialect. GOLDSTEIN, Melvyn .: , . [ Written entirely in phonetci English mimicking Tibetan pronunciation, with English-Tibetan dictionary supplement.].

 

[Monks and Nuns].Monks and Magicians: Religious Biographies in Asia. GRANOFF, Phyllis &  Koichi Shinohara.: Mosaic Press, . .

 

[Japanese Exploration].[Autobiographies - Monks and Nuns].Monks, Spies and a Soldier of Fortune: The Japanese in Tibet. BERRY, Scott .London: Athlone, 1995. .

 

[Photography > 1950].[Climbing].[Mountains and Mountaineering].Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet. ROWELL, Galen .New York: Random House, 1984. [ Famous photographs of Tibet by Galen Rowell.].

 

[Lhasa].[Early Exploration and Travel].[Womens' Exploration].My Journey to Lhasa. DAVID-NEEL, Alexandra .New York: Harper, 1927. .

 

[Autobiographies - Lamas].[Lhasa].[Chinese Invasion].My Life and Lives. KHYONGLA, Rato .New York: Dutton, 1977. [ Life story of a Tibetan incarnate Lama - Chonglya Rato - who was born in Eastern Tibet, educated in Lhasa, and was forced to flee Tibet in 1959 on the night of the Lhasa uprising. He eventually came to New York.].

 

[Early Exploration and Travel].[Lhasa].[Shigatse].My Life as an Explorer. HEDIN, Sven .Garden City NJ: Garden City, 1925. [ Re-write of Central Asia and Tibet, telling briefer version of how he reached Lhasa.].

 

[Photography > 1950].My Tibet. ROWELL, Galen &  H.H. XIV Dalai Lama.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. [ More sumptuous color photographs.].

 

[History > 1900 < 1950].[History < 1900].[Dalai Lama - general].Mystic Tibet and the Himalaya. BHANJA, Kamalesh .Darjeeling: Oxford Book & Stationery, 1948. .

 

[Amdo].[Autobiographies - Women].[Autobiographies - Westerners].Namma: A Tibetan Love Story. KARKO, Kate .London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. [ Autobiography of English woman who married a Tibetan nomad and went to live with him on the grasslands of Amdo for 6 months.].

 

[Nepal].Nepalese Textiles. DUNSMORE, Susi .London: British Museum Press, 1993. .

 

[Learning Tibetan].[Tibetan Grammar].New Plan Tibetan Grammar and Translation. CHHINJOR, Pema .New Delhi: Paljor Publications, 1998. [ Includes Tibetan-English translation exercises and English-Tibetan.].

 

[Panchen Lama - 9th].Nowhere Else in the World. ENDERS, Gordon .New York: Farrer & Rheinhart, 1935. [ Biography of Gordon Enders, who spent several years working as an American adviser to the 9th Panchen Lama, both in Tibet and India.  A fascinating portrait of the 9th Panchen Lama.].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Ocean of Nectar: Wisdom and Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism. GYATSO, Geshe Kelsang .London: Tharpa Publications, 1995. .

 

[Medicine].On Birth and Life: A Treatise on Tibetan Medicine. NORBU, Namkhai .unknown: Shalg-Shung Editions, 1983. .

 

[Lhasa].[Photography < 1950].[Travel - general].On the Road Through Tibet. SIS, Vladimir &  Josef Vanis.London: Spring Books, . [ Expedition to Lhasa in the early 1930s. Many color photographs of Tibetan life.].

 

[Buddhism - Practices and Rites].[Bon religion].[Anthropology].Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protector Deities. DE NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, Rene .New Delhi: Book Faith India, 1996. .

 

[Weapons & Military History].Oriental Hinged and Take-Apart Bows. DOUGLAS, Elmy .: , . [ Journal of the Society of Archer Antiquaries, vol 32, 1989, p24 ff].

 

[Autobiographies - Aristocrats].Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival. KNAUS, John Kenneth .: PublicAffairs, . .

 

[Reincarnation].Reborn in the West: The Reincarnation Masters. MACKENZIE, Vicki .: Marlowe, . .

 

[History < 1900].Secret Deliverance of the Sixth Dalai Lama. KLAFKOWSKI, Piotr .Vienna: Arbeitskreiss fur Tibetische und Buddhistiche Studien, 1979. .

 

[History < 1900].Sources for a bSam yas debate. HOUSTON, Gary W. .Sankt Augustin: VGH-Wissenschaftsverlag, 1980. .

 

[History < 1900].The animal style among the nomad tribes of northern Tibet. ROERICH, George N. .Prague: Seminarium Kondakovianum, 1930. [ prehistory].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].The Gelug/ Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra. DALAI LAMA XIV, Tenzin Gyatso &  Akexander Berzin.: Snow Lion, . .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].The Perfection of Wisdom: Extracts from the Astasahasrikaprajnaparamita. Illustrated with Ancient Sanskrit Manuscripts. JAMIESON, R.C. .: Viking Studio, . .

 

[Nepal].The Snow Leopard. MATTHIESSEN, Peter .: Viking Press, . .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].The Wheel of Sharp Weapons: A Mahayana Training of the Mind. DHARMARAKSHITA,  &  Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey.: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, . .

 

[Medicine].Tibetan Healing: The Modern legacy of Medicine Buddha. FENTON, Peter. .: Quest Books, . .

 

[History < 1900].Tombs of the Tibetan Kings. TUCCI, Giuseppe .Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1950. .

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Treasures on the Tibetan Middle Way. GUENTHER, Herbert .: Shambhala, . .

 

[History < 1900].Water Horse and Other Years: a history of 17th and 18th century Tibet. DHONDUP, K .Dharamsala: LTWA, 1984. [ meant for younger readers].

 

[Buddhism - Texts].Wholeness Lost and Wholeness Regained: Forgotten Tales of Individuation from Ancient Tibet. GUENTHER, Herbert V. .: New York, . .

 

[Arts].Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Expanded Edition. ,  &  Robert A. F. Thurman.New York: Tibet House / Abrams, 1996. .

 

[Arts].Worlds of Transformation: Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion. RHIE, Marilyn &  Robert A. F. Thurman.New York: Tibet House, 1999. .

 

[Autobiographies - Men].[Lhasa].[Life and Culture - general].Young Days in Tibet. PEMBA, Tsewang .London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [ Account of growing up in Lhasa during the 1920s and 1930s.].