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Tibetan Reflections : Life in a Tibetan Refugee Community
by Gold, Peter
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG (+)
- ISBN 10
- 0861710223
- ISBN 13
- 9780861710225
- Seller
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Long Beach, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Ulverstone: Wisdom Publications, 1984 Recollections of a time spent in the Indian Himalayan foothills telling of stupas and mantras, prayer wheels and offering scarves. Buddhism religious ceremonies, theater, dance and music. The amazing weatherman. The ever present monks and nuns an ama-las. Remarkable beer. Snowy mountain slopes and blazing rhododendrons. And the Dalai Lama-the very center of the peoples' lives and the source of their firm Buddhist faith. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 111 numbered pp; TPB w/French flaps. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red eps, small frontis; all edges sunned, top edge foxed a bit of foxing to preliminaries. Cover: glossy red wraps, collage of colored prayer flags front, white titles front/spine; very light edge/shelfwear, light rubbing.
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- Bookseller
- Independent Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039458
- Title
- Tibetan Reflections : Life in a Tibetan Refugee Community
- Author
- Gold, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (+)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Apparent First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0861710223
- ISBN 13
- 9780861710225
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications
- Place of Publication
- Ulverstone
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Refugees, India, Buddhism
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...