Further Reading | Week 10

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PRC State Council White Paper, "Freedom of Religious Belief," 1996.
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/Freedom/index.htm

PRC State Council White Paper, "New Progress in Human Rights in the Tibetan Autonomous Region," 1998.
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/last/index.htm

Beijing Review article on National People's Congress Decision to Ban "Heretical Cults" (ch. Xiejiao), Nov. 1999
http://www.china.org.cn/Beijing-Review/Beijing/BeijingReview/99Nov/bjr99-45e-07.htm

United States Dept. of State 2002 International Religious Freedom Report (China and Tibet)
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13870.htm

Goldstein, Melvyn and Matthew Kapstein, (Eds.). Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Schrempf, Mona. "Victory Banners, Social Prestige and Religious Identity: Ritualized Sponsorship and the Revival of Bon Monasticism in Amdo Shar-Khog," Samten Karmay and Yasuhiko Nagano, eds., New Horizons in Bon Studies, Osaka 2000. (see me)

Sperling, Eliot. "The Rhetoric of Dissent: Tibetan Pamphleteers," in Barnett, ed. Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst and Co., 1994. (book reserve)

Barnett, Robert. "Symbols and Protest", in Barnett, ed. Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst and Co., 1994. (book reserve)

Peng Wenbin. "Tibetan Pilgrimage in the Process of Social Change," in Alex McKay, ed., Pilgrimage in Tibet. Curzon, 1998. (see me)

Tibet Information Network: A Sea of Bitterness: Patriotic Education in Qinghai Monasteries. TIN Briefing Paper 32, 1999.

Devine, Carol. Determination: Tibetan Women and the Struggle for an Independent Tibet. Toronto: Vauve Press, 1993.

Havnevik, Hanna. Tibetan Buddhist Nuns, Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1990.

Guttschow, Kim. "The Women Who Refuse to be Exchanged: Nuns in Zangskar, Northwest, India," in Bell and Sobo, eds., Celibacy, Culture and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

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