tibet

Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die. In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau?civilization?s final survivors?are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches for a father who disappeared ten years earlier, presumed dead.

After dying, a Tibetan woodcutter is given the choice of going to heaven or to live another life anywhere in the universe.

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about a caravan traveling from Tibet to far-off India.

On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again. What Conway found in ShangriLa makes the story.

Chronicles the life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, leader of the Buddhist faith, from his childhood in "Shangri-La," to his years in exile.

An overview of Tibet, Roof of the World, whose cruel takeover by the Chinese in 1951 began the darkest period in that country's history.

An autobiography of Tibetan refugee Adhe Tapontsang, discussing the abuses she and her family suffered following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950.

In November 1943 five American airmen flying the dangerous Himalayan supply route were caught in a violent storm and blown far off their intended course. Bailing out just seconds before their plane ran out of fuel, they found themselves in the heart of Tibet. They were among the first Americans to enter the Forbidden City of Lhasa and the last to see it before the Chinese invasion.

Recounts her journey into China and the high country of Tibet in 1980.

Describes the geography, history, government, economy, culture, religion, environment, and people of Tibet.