Imagining Tibet Perceptions, Projections, and Fantasies

Name: Imagining Tibet Perceptions, Projections, and Fantasies
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ISBN: 9780861711918

ISBN-10: 0861711912

ISBN-13: 9780861711918

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thierry Dodin, Heinz Rather, Tsering Shakya

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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Publication date: 5/9/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Thierry Dodin is a Tibetologist who has taught at the University of Bonn and recently served as director of the Tibet Information Network in London.

Heinz Raether works as a Tibetologist at the Universities of Ulm. He lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.



Foreword



Preface



Missionaries and Scholars


The Image of Tibet in the West before the Nineteenth Century



Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Missionary Images of Tibet



Tibet Images among Researchers on Tibet




The Sight of the "Other"


"Truth," Perception, and Politics: The British Construction of an Image of Tibet



Tibetan Horizon: Tibet and the Cinema in the Early Twentieth Century



Old Tibet a Hell on Earth? The Myth of Tibet and Tibetans in Chinese Art and Propaganda



Tibet, Theosophy, and the Psychologization of Buddhism



The Role of Tibet in the New Age Movement



The Image of Tibet of the Great Mystifiers



Not Only a Shangri-la: Images of Tibet in Western Literature



The Development in Perceptions of Tibetan Art: From Golden Idols to Ultimate Reality




Standpoints


Tibetan Monastic Colleges: Rationality versus the Demands of Allegiance



"Violated Specialness": Western Political Representations of Tibet



"Orientalism" and Aspects of Violence in the Tibetan Tradition



Tibetan Culture As a Model of Ecological Sustainability



Tradition, Modernity, and Environmental Change in Tibet



Shangri-la in Exile: Representations of Tibetan Identity and Transnational Culture



Behind the Lost Horizon: Demystifying Tibet



Buddhism in the West and the Image of Tibet




Final Considerations


Imagining Tibet: Between Shangri-la and Feudal Oppression: Attempting a Synthesis



Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index