Course Book List (Fall 2009)
Copies of the following books (listed in the order they are assigned in the course) are available at the bookstore; copies of each are also on reserve at the library.
Main texts (a lot assigned)
- Kapstein, Matthew. The Tibetans, Blackwell, 2006. [DS786 .K313 2006]
- Barnett, Robert. Lhasa: Streets with Memories. Columbia University Press, 2006. [DS797.82.L537 B37 2006]
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV. Freedom in exile: the autobiography of the Dalai Lama. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperPerennial, 1991, c1990 (1st HarperPerennial ed). [BQ7935.B777 A3 1991]
- Dreyfus, George. The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. University of California Press, 2003. [BQ7756 .D74 2003]
- Huber, Toni. The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet. Oxford. 1999. [BL1945.T5 H83 1999]
- Dodin and Rather, eds., Imagining Tibet. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001. [DS785.A1 I45 2001]
- Khetsun, Tubten. 2007 (Matthew Akester, trans.) Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule. Columbia. [Catalog]
- Diehl, Keila. Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002. [ML338.8.D53 D54 2002]
- Schwartz, Ronald. Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. [DS786 .S347 1994]
Supplementary texts (good reference or a section assigned)
- Blondeau, Anne-Marie and Katia Buffetrille, eds. 2008. Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China’s 100 Questions. Berkeley: University of California Press. [DS786 .T4963413 2008]
- Powers, John. History as Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China. Oxford. 2004. [DS786 .P68 2004]
- Goldstein, Melvyn. A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. 1989. [DS786 .G635 1989]
- Said, Edward. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books. [DS12 .S24 1979]
- Tuttle, Gray. Tibetan Buddhists in the making of modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, c2005. [DS786 .T866 2005]
- Lopez, Donald. 1998. Introduction. Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. University of Chicago Press. [BQ7604 .L66 1998]
