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LEADER: 02981cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2001026030
003 DLC
005 20110510083054.0
008 010313s2001 maua b 101 0 eng
010 $a 2001026030
020 $a0861711912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDS785.A1$bI45 2001
082 00 $a951/.5$221
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 8 $aMachine generated contents note: I. MISSIONARIES AND SCHOLARS -- The 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 -- II. THE SIGHT OF THE "OTHER" -- "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 -- III. STANDPOINTS -- 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 Kyabg n Rinpoche -- IV. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Imagining Tibet: Between Shangri-la -- and Feudal Oppression -- ATTEMPTING A SYNTHESIS -- Thierry Dodin and Heinz Rither -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.
651 0 $aTibet Autonomous Region (China)$vCongresses.
700 1 $aDodin, Thierry.
700 1 $aRäther, Heinz.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001026030.html