High Peaks Pure Earth presents the Summer 2019 Reading List! We’ve updated the previous Winter Reading List to include 18 more titles covering the span of the entire Tibetan Buddhist world. Please note the reading list is best viewed on your computer’s browser, each link opens in a new tab. Alternatively, see all the titles on Amazon in one place […]

Published in February 2019 and available through University of Washington Press, “Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism” is a collection of essays edited by Karl Debreczeny exploring the dynamic intersection of politics, religion, and art in Tibetan Buddhism.

Published in January 2019 by Oxford University Press, “Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature” by Douglas S. Duckworth offers an engaging philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought.

Published in July 2019 by Snow Lion, “The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great” by Alexander Gardner is the most accessible work available on Jamgon Kongtrul’s life, writings, and influence, written as a truly engaging historical biography.

Published in Japan by Union Press in March 2019, “The Resurgence of ‘Buddhist Government’: Tibetan-Mongolian Relations in the Modern World” by Yumiko Ishihama, Makoto Tachibana, Ryosuke Kobayashi and Takehiko Inoue is a compilation of essays examining the interrelationships in the Tibetan Buddhist world encompassing Tibet, Mongolia, and Kalmykia.

Published in March 2019 by University of Hawaii Press, “Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet” by Jane Caple is an ethnographic study exploring the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet (Amdo/Qinghai Province) from the 1980s on.

Published in March 2019 by University of Washington Press, “Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism” by Eric Huntington explores the various ways that Buddhists have imagined and represented the cosmos over the last nearly two thousand years of Buddhist history in Tibet, Nepal and India. 

Published by Oxford University Press in September 2018, “Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition” by Ruth Gamble examines how the third Karmapa hierarch, Rangjung Dorjé (1284-1339) transformed reincarnation from a belief into a lasting Tibetan institution.

High Peaks Pure Earth presents the Summer 2018 Reading List! We’ve updated the previous Winter Reading List to include 26 (!) more titles covering the span of the entire Tibetan Buddhist world. Please note the reading list is best viewed on your computer’s browser, each link opens in a new tab.

Published in July 2018 by Columbia University Press, “Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet” by Max Oidtmann looks into the polyglot world of the Qing empire in search of the origins of the golden urn tradition.