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050 00 $aDS785.A1$bI45 2001
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245 00 $aImagining Tibet :$bperceptions, projections, & fantasies /$cedited by Thierry Dodin & Heinz Räther.
260 $aBoston :$bWisdom Publications,$cc2001.
300 $axiii, 465 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aEssays are based on papers presented at the international symposium, Mythos Tibet held in Bonn, Germany, 1996.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [417]-452) and index.
505 0 $aThe image of Tibet in the West before the nineteenth century / Rudolf Kaschewsky -- Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century missionary images of Tibet / John Bray -- Tibet images among researchers on Tibet / Per Kvaerne -- "Truth," perception, and politics : the British construction of an image of Tibet / Alex C. McKay -- Tibetan horizon : Tibet and the cinema in the early twentieth century / Peter H. Hansen -- Old Tibet a hell on earth? The myth of Tibet and Tibetans in Chinese art and propaganda / Thomas Heberer -- Tibet, theosophy, and the psychologization of Buddhism / Poul Pedersen -- The role of Tibet in the New Age movement / Frank J. Korom -- The image of Tibet of the great mystifiers / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- Not only a Shangri-La : images of Tibet in western literature / Peter Bishop -- The development in perceptions of Tibetan art : from golden idols to ultimate reality / Heather Stoddard -- Tibetan monastic colleges : rationality versus the demands of allegiance / P. Jeffrey Hopkins -- "Violated specialness" : western political representations of Tibet / Robert Barnett -- "Orientalism" and aspects of violence in the Tibetan tradition / Elliot Sperling -- Tibetan culture as a model of ecological sustainability / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Tradition, modernity, and environmental change in Tibet / Graham E. Clarke -- Shangri-La in exile : representations of Tibetan identity and transnational culture / Toni Huber -- Behind the Lost Horizon : demystifying Tibet / Jamyang Norbu -- Buddhism in the West and the image of Tibet / Dagyab Kyabgön Rinpoche -- Imagining Tibet : between Shangri-La and feudal oppression : attempting a synthesis / Thierry Dodin and Heinz Räther.
651 0 $aTibet (China)$vCongresses.
700 1 $aDodin, Thierry.
700 1 $aRäther, Heinz.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001026030.html
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