Resources used for this website:

Ama Adhe, The Voice That Remembers, (Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1997).

Allwright, Osada, Kanamaru ,  Mapping the Tibetan World, (Kotan Publishing Inc., Tokyo 2000).

Stephen Batchelor, The Tibet Guide, (Wisdom Publications, Massachusetts, 1998). 

General C. G. Bruce, The Assault On Mount Everest, (Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1923).

Victor Chan, Tibet Handbook,  (Moon Publications Inc., California 1994).

Spencer Chapman, Lhasa, The Holy City, (Readers Union ltd, London, 1940).

Mary Craig, Tears of Blood, (Counterpoint, Washington D.C., 1999).

Hugh R. Downs, Rhythms of a Himalayan Village, (Harper and Row Publishers, San Francisco, 1980).

Lama Anagarika Govinda, The Way of the White Clouds: A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet, (Shambala Publications, Berkely, 1970).

Palden Gyatso, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, (Grove Press, New York, 1997).

Isabel Hilton, The Search for the Panchen Lama, (Penguin Books, England, 1999).

Michael E. Hoffman and Michael L. Sand, Tibet, Since 1950, (Aperture Foundation, Inc, New York, 2000).

Erich Jantsch, The Self-Organizing Universe, (Pergamon Press, New York, 1980).

Russell Johnson and Kerry Moran, The Sacred Mountain of Tibet, (Park Street Press, Vermont, 1989).

Fosco Maraini, Secret Tibet, (The Harvill Press, London, 1998).

Andre Migot, Tibetan Marches, (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1955).

Simon Normanton, Tibet, The Lost Civilisation, (Penguin Books Ltd., London, 1988).

Sherry B. Ortner,  High Religion, (Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1989).

Galen Rowell, Mountains of the Middle Kingdom, (Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, California, 1983).

John Snelling, The Sacred Mountain, (East-West Publications, London 1990).

R.A. Stein, Tibetan Civilization, (Stanford University Press, California, 1972).

Giuseppe Tucci, Gyantse and its Monasteries, (New Delhi, 1989).

Giuseppe Tucci, Transhimalaya, (Nagel Publishers, Geneva, 1973).

Rosemary Jones Tung, A Portrait of Lost Tibet, (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1980.)   (Pictures by Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan)

Walt Unsworth, Everest, A Mountaineering History (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1981).

Jugoslovenska Revija, Tibet, (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1981).  *(Six Authors: Ngapo Ngawang Jigmei, Chapel Tsetan Phuntso, Na Zhen, Khrili Chodra, Dongge Luosantselie, Jampei Chinlei, Cai Xiansheng)     (*Photographers: Yang Kelin, Xie Xingfa, Gu Shoukang, Dai Jiming, Yang Minghui, Zhang Hanyi, Cai Long, Wu Fuqiang, Ren Shiyin, Yin Hong, Liu Qiangang, Liu Tiesheng, Traggoluo, Jia Mingzu, Xu Zhenshi, Shao Hua An, Gao Guorong, Gao Shenkang) 

Ngari, Tibet, China (Tourism Administration of Ngari Prefecture).

 

*Kailash and Manasarovar maps based off maps by Barbara Ierulli - Sacred Mountain of Tibet

*Lhasa and Everest clickable maps based off maps made by Claude Andre from tibetmap.com

*Other websites used for data and picture collection:

www.tibetmap.com

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/history/rongbukmon.html

www.asianart.com

 

 

 

 

 

 
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