Women in Tibet
Subtitle: Past and Present
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231130981
Subjects: Anthropology - General; General; Women's Studies - General; Religion / General; Sociology - General; Social Science; China; History; Social conditions; Tibet; Women; Sociology
First sentence: When asked about women in the period of the Tibetan empire (seventh to ninth centuries CE), many Tibetans as well as others interested in Tibetan culture would at least be able to mention two names: the Nepali and the Chinese consorts of the emperor Songtsen Gampo (d. 649).