Further Reading | Week 1

If This Topic Intrigues You, Check Out These Other Sources!

Lopez, Donald. Chapters 1-5, in Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (Bookstore, book reserve).

Lopez, Donald. (1995). "Foreigner at the Lama's Feet," reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. (see me.)

"Symposium on Donald S. Lopez Jr.'s Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion.Vol. 29(1), March 2001. (Includes reviews by David Germano, Tsering Shakya and Robert Thurman, w/response by Lopez). (see me)

Lopez, Donald. Curators of the Buddha. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Schell, Orvill. "The Kingdom of the Screen," and "Tinseltown Tulkus", in Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La From the Himalayas to Hollywood. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000. (30 pp).

Dodin, Thierry and Heinz Rather, eds. Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections, and Fantasies. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2001.

McLagan, Meg. 2002. "Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet," Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Ginsburg et al, eds.,Berkeley: University of California Press.

McLagan, Meg. 2003. "Human Rights, Testimony, and Transnational Publicity," The Scholar and Feminist Online 2(1), Summer.

Korom, Frank. (1997). "Old Age Tibet in New Age America," reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. (see me.)

McKay, Alex. (1998). "Tibet: The Myth of Isolation," reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. (see me.)

Hansen, Peter. (1996) "The Dancing Lamas of Everest: Cinema, orientalism and Anglo-Tibetan relations in the 1920s," reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. (see me.)

Bray, John. (1993). "Christian Missions and the Politics of Tibet, 1850-1950," reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. (see me.)

Bharati, Agehananda. (1974). "Fictitious Tibet: The origin and persistence of Rampaism," reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. (see me.)

Coales, Oliver. "Narrative of a Journey from Tachienlu to Ch'amdo and back via Batang," unpublished report to Govt. of India 1916, reprinted in Alex Mckay, ed. The History of Tibet, vol III: The Modern Period 1895-1959 Encounter with Modernity. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

French, Patrick. Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land. Harper Collins, 2003.

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