A Handbook Of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World

by Graham Coleman

Overview

Over the past nine years the Orient Foundation has compiled a database that brings together information on over 600 Tibetan-related organizations throughtout the world. Compiled under the auspices of HH The Dalai Lama, this book provided comprehensive information about Tibetan Buddhism and culture for the general public including: Museums, teaching centres, retreat centres and publications listed in a country-by-country gazetteer. Background information on the four schools of Tibetan Biddhism Biographies of practising Tibetan teachers The First glossary of Tibetan terms

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473550223
Publisher:	Ebury Publishing
Publication date:	03/24/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	430
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture(UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. He has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the mid-1970s, and is the writer and director of the acclaimed feature documentary ‘Tibet – A Buddhist Trilogy’.