“Undercover Journey Through Tibet” was originally written in Tibetan by Ajam after his secret journey across Tibet in 2006. The book has been translated into English by Trinley Gyatso and the English edition was published earlier this year by US-based Millennial Mind Publishing. Ajam currently teaches Tibetan literature at the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education in Bangalore, India. The book [...]

Now that the long winter months are facing us, it’s time for an update to our reading list on books related to all aspects of Tibet to help get everyone through. Apologies if you came looking for a music video today, due to technical problems with the site most of today, High Peaks Pure Earth only has time for this one [...]

Published by the Rubin Museum of Art in July 2012 and distributed by University of Washington Press, “The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa” is the first publication to focus on works by the hand of a single Tibetan historical artist. From the University of Washington Press website: The Tenth Karmapa Choying Dorje (1604-1674) was not only [...]

Published by University of Washington Press in April 2011, “Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Premi of Southwest China” by Koen Wellens is the first full-length study of the Premi in a language other than Chinese. From the University of Washington Press website: Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic [...]

Published by Duke University Press Books in November 2012, ”Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet’s Move into the Twenty-First Century” by John Kenneth Knaus chronicles relations between Tibetans and the United States since 1908. From the Duke University Press website: In 1958, John Kenneth Knaus volunteered to serve in a major CIA program to support the Tibetans. For the next seven years, as an [...]

Please note this reader will be published in early 2013! From the Columbia University Press website: Answering a critical need for an accurate, in-depth history of Tibet, this single-volume resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies. Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, the [...]

Published in September 2011 by Routledge as part of their “Critical Studies in Buddhism” series, “The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment” by Dan Smyer Yu explores the intricate entanglements of recent Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. From the Routledge website: Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic [...]

Please note this book is due to be published in early 2013! From the Columbia University Press website: The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social movements of Tibetan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the modern period. It includes more than 180 representative writings of the [...]

Published in September 2012 by University of California Press, “Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land” is a collection of essays by various contributors include a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a Macarthur Fellow, the China correspondent to a major Indian newspaper and scholars. Although more about China than Tibet, it includes one chapter by Alec Ash titled “Out [...]

Published by Chicago University Press in November 2012, in “The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet”, Clare Harris casts her eye over how Tibet has been represented in museums in recent history. From the Chicago University Press website: Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for [...]