Virtual Tibet
Subtitle: searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood
By: Orville Schell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780805043815
Subjects: In motion pictures; Foreign public opinion; History
Description: The author goes beyond the fantasies of literature and the movies to the reality of an isolated, but alluring, country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference (p.[317]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: My Tibet and Ours -- 3 -- 1; title: Tibet as Place and Myth -- 15 -- 2; title: The Kingdom of the Screen -- 31 -- 3; title: The Dalai Lama Comes to Hollywood -- 42 -- 4; title: Tinseltown Tulkus -- 50 -- 5; title: The Evangelist -- 75 -- 6; title: The Explorer -- 85 -- 7; title: Gateway to Virtual Tibet -- 99 -- 8; title: My Argentine Hajj -- 119 -- 9; title: Bringing the Gospels to Lhasa -- 123 -- 10; title: Hacienda Brad -- 132 -- 11; title: First among Few -- 137 -- 12; title: Lhasa at Last -- 162 -- 13; title: Filling in the Blank -- 182 -- 14; title: Illusion and Reality -- 205 -- 15; title: The Land of the Spirit -- 222 -- 16; title: The Annunciation -- 249 -- 17; title: The Last of the Questers -- 263 -- 18; title: Where the Virtual Heinrich Harrer and the Real Brad Pitt Diverge -- 283 -- 19; title: Coping with the Real Heinrich Harrer -- 287 -- 20; title: The Chinese React -- 295 -- 21; title: Tibetan Questions -- 303 -- 22; title: Virtual Tibet Meets the Real Public-- 307.