A Handbook of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570620024 ISBN 13: 9781570620027

Publisher: Shambhala Pubns, 1994

Synopsis

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

About this title

Book Description:

The first encyclopaedic reference guide to Tibetan cultural resources worldwide.

About the Author:

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’.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1570620024
• ISBN 13: 9781570620027
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Coleman Graham