Main entry:

Lhasa, lieu du divin. English.

Title & Author:

Lhasa in the seventeenth century : the capital of the Dalai Lamas / edited by Françoise Pommaret ; translated by Howard Solverson.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Description:

xvi, 245 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 3

Notes:
"This book is a revised and augmented version of Françoise Pommaret & al., Lhasa, lieu du divin. Editions Olizane, Genève, 1997"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
The Western Discovery of Tibet / Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis -- Lhasa, Legend and History / Anne-Marie Blondeau, Yonten Gyatso -- The Potala, Symbol of the Power of the Dalai Lamas /Anne Chayet -- The Great Monuments of Lhasa as Presented in the Architectural Paintings of the Musee Guimet / Gilles Beguin -- The Fifth Dalai Lama and His Reunification of Tibet / Samten G. Karmay -- The Great Protector Deities of the Dalai Lamas / Amy Heller -- The Golden Century of Tibetan Medicine / Fernand Meyer -- Tibet's Foreign Relations during the Epoch of the Fifth Dalai Lama / Elliot Sperling -- Gold, Wool and Musk: Trade in Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century / Luce Boulnois -- Lhasa, City of Pilgrimage / Katia Buffetrille -- The Hours and Days of a Great Monastery: Drepung / Ngawang Dakpa -- Scholars, Artists and Feasts / Erberto F. Lo Bue -- Postscript A City, its Visitors, and the Odour of Development / Robert Barnett.
Translated from the French.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9004128662
9789004128668

Subject:

Tibetischer Buddhismus
Hoofdsteden.
Dalai lama's.
Lhasa (China) History.
China Lhasa.
Lhasa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Pommaret, Françoise.
Pommaret-Imaeda, Françoise.
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229108
Call No.: DS786 .L4 2003
Status: Available