Imagining Tibet
Subtitle: perceptions, projections, & fantasies
By: edited by Thierry Dodin & Heinz Räther.
Contributors: Dodin, Thierry.; Räther, Heinz.
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
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.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. MISSIONARIES AND SCHOLARS; title: The Image of Tibet in the West; title: before the Nineteenth Century; title: Rudolf Kaschewsky; title: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century; title: Missionary Images of Tibet; title: John Bray; title: Tibet Images among Researchers on Tibet; title: Per Kvaerne; title: II. THE SIGHT OF THE "OTHER"; title: "Truth," Perception, and Politics:; title: The British Construction of an Image of Tibet; title: Alex C. McKay; title: Tibetan Horizon: Tibet and the Cinema; title: in the Early Twentieth Century; title: Peter H. Hansen; title: Old Tibet a Hell on Earth? The Myth of Tibet; title: and Tibetans in Chinese Art and Propaganda; title: Thomas Heberer; title: Tibet, Theosophy, and the Psychologization; title: of Buddhism; title: Poul Pedersen; title: The Role of Tibet; title: in the New Age Movement; title: Frank J. Korom; title: The Image of Tibet of the Great Mystifiers; title: Donald S. Lopez, Jr.; title: Not Only a Shangri-la:; title: Images of Tibet in Western Literature; title: Peter Bishop; title: The Development in Perceptions; title: of Tibetan Art: From Golden Idols; title: to Ultimate Reality; title: Heather Stoddard; title: III. STANDPOINTS; title: Tibetan Monastic Colleges: Rationality; title: versus the Demands of Allegiance; title: P. Jeffrey Hopkins; title: "Violated Specialness": Western Political; title: Representations of Tibet; title: Robert Barnett; title: "Orientalism" and Aspects of Violence; title: in the Tibetan Tradition; title: Elliot Sperling; title: Tibetan Culture As a Model; title: of Ecological Sustainability; title: Helena Norberg-Hodge; title: Tradition, Modernity,; title: and Environmental Change in Tibet; title: Graham E. Clarke; title: Shangri-la in Exile: Representations; title: of Tibetan Identity and Transnational Culture; title: Toni Huber; title: Behind the Lost Horizon:; title: Demystifying Tibet; title: Jamyang Norbu; title: Buddhism in the West and the Image of Tibet; title: Dagyab Kyabg n Rinpoche; title: IV. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS; title: Imagining Tibet: Between Shangri-la; title: and Feudal Oppression; title: ATTEMPTING A SYNTHESIS; title: Thierry Dodin and Heinz Rither; title: Bibliography; title: List of Contributors; title: Index.