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A British fugitive escaping his own demons finds unfinished business in UNTAC-era Cambodia. An anarchist group struggles against the odds and an enemy they can barely remember. A Japanese doctor...

'The civilization of the Tibetan people is disappearing before our very eyes, and apart from a few gentle protests here and there, the rest of the world lets it go without comment and without regret...

Offers an account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's 1933 expedition to the south-eastern corner of Tibet that was significant for his geographic revelations. This work presents...

These are the memoirs of a Dob-dob', or fighting monk, trained to keep the peace in a monastic community of several thousand monks, during and after the Chinese invasion of Tibet, in 1959. The true...

The subject of this study is a small collection of songs known as Caryagiti, 'songs of the mystic path', or literally 'songs of the proper way of action', published by Hariprasad Sastri in 1916...

Classical Tibetan, with origins dating to the seventh century, is the language found in a huge corpus of surviving Tibetan, mostly Buddhist, texts; native Tibetans still employ this language, today,...

A detailed treatise on the art of body divination in Asia, with 41 b&w illustrations drawn from early Chinese and Western works on the subject. First published in 1968, this edition is re-edited and...

In an imaginary Portuguese colony on the south coast of China a beautiful Australian woman gradually achieves her own freedom and integrity through her relationships with four men: her indifferent...

This thought provoking study of the development of architecture, and the impact of architectural models on this evolution, in southeast Asia, draws for its early examples primarily from surviving...

A detailed first-hand account-and critical analysis-of the impact of the first contingent of American Peace Corps volunteers to live and work in Nepal, arriving in 1962 just following the King's...

Seventy years and at least three generations have passed since the abomination of the Holocaust was inflicted by the Nazis on the Jewish population of eastern Europe. And yet the singular horror and...

A century and a half ago Tibetan mastiffs were first imported into England, and only three decades ago to North America. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution these remarkable high altitude...

This book, a revised edition of one of this renowned scholar's primary early works, describes the various developments in Tibetan Buddhism from earliest times to its present form. It is therefore a...

Long out of print and unavailable, and now available in a special reprint edition, the first two bulletins of the renowned Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong featured articles presented by such...

Describes the author's two expeditions to Burma - one on his own and a second, with a larger American party close to the Burma-China border - completed by the intrepid explorer and plant hunter,...

This study comprises an in-depth examination of the anthropology of caste as observed in the Newar communities of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and, by extension, within Hindu society more generally...

Translation of an ancient Chinese manual on juriprudence, including details of many trials and judgments for crimes both high and petty.Author: NAPublisher: Orchid PressPublication Date: Feb 01,...

*Biography of a widely popular author, as well as highly respected Asian scholar; available previously in Dutch and French and now for the first time in English*Based on primary sources such as the...

Essential Thai is a complete, efficient learning tool for students to acquire basic skills in Thai language. It includes downloadable MP-3 audio files to introduce the student to pronunciation and...

Forty Delicious Years is the story of Bali's most enduring culinary landmark - Murni's Warung in Ubud. Narrated by some of the Warung's most intriguing patrons, with a Preface by Murni herself, the...

This English translation of the manuscript autobiographies of four Tibetan lamas of the Dolpo region, three of whom were born in the 16th century and one in the 17th, offers the reader important...

The present volume provides an edited and corrected transcription the original Tibetan textual autobiographies of four Tibetan lamas of the Dolpo region, three of whom were born in the 16th century...

Marshall Moran set out from Chicago in 1929 to join a Jesuit mission in Asia. Over the next six decades he became one of the continent's most remote celebrities, a pioneer priest and educator and one...

An investigation of the origins, meaning, proliferation and iconography of the popular tantric god, Hayagriva, in India, Tibet, China and Japan.Author: Robert Hans Van GulikPublisher: Orchid...

Himalayan Pilgrimage describes a seven months' journey which the author made through the remote Tibetan regions of Western Nepal in 1956. Travelling everywhere on foot with his Nepalese companion,...

In 1914, the British plant-collector and explorer, Kingdon-Ward, undertook an expedition of some eight month's duration along Burma's eastern frontier and across the headwaters of the Irrawaddy River...

An authoritative treatment of the migration of Buddhism, from its origins in north India, into Tibet and its subsequent development in and impact on that culture.Author: David L. SnellgrovePublisher:...

Learning to read Thai is the path to a more profound grasp of the language. Introduction to Thai Reading teaches not only essential Thai reading skills, but also the vocabulary and grammar needed for...

A new edition of a classic on Malay weaponry and war, originally published in 1936 in an extremely limited printing now virtually impossible to find. In addition to his work in description and...

The artist Sappho Marchal was the daughter of the renowned French conservator of Angkor, Henri Marchal. She spent the early years of her life in Cambodia, surrounded by the magnificent ruins of the...