Course Book List (Spring 2023)
Copies of the following books (listed in the order they are assigned in the course) are available at the bookstore; copies of each are also on reserve at the library. NOTE: bold=no ereserves available!
Main texts (a lot assigned)
- Dodin and Rather, eds., Imagining Tibet. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001.
- Dalton, Jacob. The Taming of the Demons. Yale University Press. 2012.
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV. Freedom in exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperPerennial, 1991, c1990 (1st HarperPerennial ed).
- Khetsun, Tubten. 2007 (Matthew Akester, trans. ) Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule. Columbia.
- Diehl, Keila. Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002.
- Craig, Sienna. Healing Elements. 2012. Univ of Calif Press
Supplementary texts (good reference or a section assigned)
- Kapstein, Matthew. The Tibetans, Blackwell, 2006.
- Jacoby, Sarah. Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro. Columbia University Press, 2014.
- Goldstein, Melvyn. A History of Modern Tibet 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. 1989.
- Tuttle, Gray. Tibetan Buddhists in the making of modern China. New York : Columbia University Press, c2005
- Smyer-Yu, Dan. The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment, Routledge, 2013.