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The Bridge
A mysterious letter arrives for Michael, enshrined with three secretive and ancient symbols that would forever change his life. The letter informs Michael that he is assigned a sacred mission to walk a forbidden bridge, but first he will have to defeat the army that surrounds it. But how would he do this and keep his loved ones safe from the Brotherhood of the Bridge, who seek to destroy him and all that is good in this world? Michael, his friends, Zacharias and Cisco, and lover, Adeona, go on an action-packed, high romance, breath-taking, daring, and suspense-filled journey across the world and into other dimensions on their sacred quest. On a collision course with the most ruthless, uncompassionate, and foul beings in the universe with love as his sword and faith his shield, Michael learns where impossible starts, miracles are born.
Buddha's Not Smiling
Interest in Buddhism has exploded in the last couple of decades, and millions of people around the world view Tibetan Buddhism as the religion's most pure and authentic form. Yet, a political conflict among Tibetan lamas themselves is now poised to tear the Tibetan Buddhist world apart and threaten the ntegrity of its thousand-year old teachings. On August 2, 1993, Rumtek monastery was attacked. Its monks were expelled and the cloister was turned over to supporters of a boy-lamas appointed by the Chinese government. But Rumtek was not in China, and its attackers were not Communist troops. Rumtek was in India, the refuge for most exiled Tibetans. And it was Tibetan lamas and monks themselves who led the siege. Yet, evidence shows that Chinese agents directly supported Tibetan lamas and monks who attacked Rumtek monastery. While a complete picture of this controversy has been blurred by the media's focus on international Buddhist celebrities, Buddha's Not Smiling challengers Readers to Judge for themselves the health of Tibetan Buddhism today.
Wetlands of Mountainous Regions
A comprehensive survey of exemplary wetlands that highlights their importance for local livelihoods as well as for global biodiversity Covering 12 mountainous regions ranging from medium to high altitudes, Wetlands of Mountainous Regions provides detailed information on the world’s most important wetlands and wetland types across Eurasia and the Americas as well as their current and potential biological resources. Each wetland is analyzed by a regional expert. Written with UN sustainable development goals in mind, Wetlands of Mountainous Regions includes information on: Wetlands of Eastern Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, Armenia, Georgia, Slovakia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Boliv...
Sources of Mongolian Buddhism
"This volume consists of twenty-four chapters containing a collection of selected original sources of Mongolian Buddhism, composed either in Tibetan or Mongolian language. This collection brings new material that has not yet been available in any of European languages. Translated sources serve as a lens through which to examine Mongolian Buddhism in its variety of literary genres and styles and religious and cultural ideas and practices. Each chapter includes a translation of a shorter text or a selected section of a longer text, and each contributor also provides the introduction to a translated text or texts, which contextualizes text, references and endnotes. The volume contains twenty-fo...
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet
In one of the most remote covert campaigns of the cold war, the CIA harnessed, nurtured, and encouraged the Khampa tribesmen of Tibet in their defiance against Chinese subjugation. This is the first time the story has been told.
Requiem for Tibet
In this remarkable autobiography George Patterson, confidant of the Dalai Lama, tells of the mission that took him to Tibet and of his part in Tibet's struggle to withstand China. Brought up in a Plymouth Brethren background, Patterson travelled, at the call of God, to Tibet in 1946. Arriving in eastern Tibet he was befriended by the charismatic Khamba chieftain Topgyay and threw himself into the colourful Tibetan life and its precarious politics as the Communists pushed towards Peking. After three years of living among the Tibetans, Patterson was sent as their emissary, through snow blizzards and landslides, over the mighty Himalayas to India to warn the Western governments of the impending...
World Mental Health
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News Review
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The Numismatic Chronicle
"The rules of the Numismatic Society of London" bound with New Ser., v. 1.
