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Tabo: a Lamp for the Kingdom: Early Indo-Tibetan Buddhist art in the Western Himalaya
"The monastery of Tabo lies in Northern India in the secluded Spiti Valley, which was at one time part of the kingdom of Western Tibet. Founded in 996 Tabo is the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in India and the Himalayas. Its…
Tabo: a Lamp for the Kingdom: Early Indo-Tibetan Buddhist art in the Western Himalaya
"The monastery of Tabo lies in Northern India in the secluded Spiti Valley, which was at one time part of the kingdom of Western Tibet. Founded in 996 Tabo is the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in India and the Himalayas. Its…
The Mughal Emperors: And the Islamic Dynasties of India, Iran and Central Asia, 1206-1925
"This book describes the rulers from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries whose reigns and lands were affected by Mongol/Mughal power and who all shared the Muslim high civilization that flourished from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan…
The Search for the Buddha: the Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion
"Now 2,500 years old, Buddhism has 300 million followers worldwide and between two and three million adherents in the United States. Yet, until the late eighteenth century when Sir William "Oriental" Jones - a British judge in India - broke the…
