An edition of Imagining Tibet
(2001)
Imagining Tibet
perceptions, projections, & fantasies
by Thierry Dodin
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Congresses, 15.75 history of Asia, Beeldvorming, Waarneming, Landeskunde, Aufsatzsammlung, Tibet autonomous region (china), Tibet autonomous region (china), civilization, Tibet autonomous region (china), social life and customs, Tibet autonomous region (china), politics and governmentPlaces
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Imagining Tibet: perceptions, projections, & fantasies
2001, Wisdom Publications
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Table of Contents
Machine 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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-452) and index.
Essays are based on papers presented at the international symposium, Mythos Tibet held in Bonn, Germany, 1996.
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