tibet (china)

The author relates his father's experiences while lost in Tibet during the mid-1950s.

Although he rebels against life in the Tibetan Buddhist monastery where he had been sent, fourteen-year-old Thunder comes to some amazing realizations about himself.

A thirteen-year-old boy escapes from slaughter by the Boxers in China and joins forces with an English botanist and her escort, traveling with them to Tibet where the power of Buddhist monks transforms the lives of all of them.

Tenzin, a Tibetan boy known for his wisdom and empathy toward animals, nurses a wounded musk deer back to health and learns that sometimes love means letting go.

An adventure parable in which the narrator travels to Shambahala in search of spiritual enlightenment.

Chronicles the childhood of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and explores Tibet.

Looks at the life of French explorer Alexandra David-Neel, focusing on her experiences after she left her husband and traveled to India where she became intrigued with the Buddhist religion, eventually becoming the first Western woman to enter Tibet's Forbidden City, Lhasa.

Explores through photographs and text, the ancient culture of the Tibetans and the threats to its existence today.

Long shrouded in mystery, Tibet is a hidden land almost completely surrounded by the mountains of central Asia. Since the fall of its great empire in the 9th century, Tibet had been peacefully living under the rule of a succession of Dalai and Panchen Lamas until the Chinese invasion in 1949. Tibet struggles to regain its independent status and this illuminating account examines the turbulent and painful history of this beautiful land.