Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKolas and Thowsen have written a useful work that contributes to the debates on contemporary Tibetan culture and development in China. In the often-polarized environment of such debates, this book offers an alternative data set of information, all the more unique because the authors had official research access... to each of the twenty-five Tibetan counties under survey... this work ultimately seeks to understand the viability of Tibetan cultural survival. Asian Ethnology Kolas and Thowsen have bravely sketched the contours of religious and cultural trends in the eastern Tibet regions, while offering detailed illustrations ... the vast geographic area and multiple arenas addressed in the book comprise an unprecedented map for further research on Tibetan religious and cultural production and a possible model for facing similar methodological challenges. History of Religions
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. The Setting
2. Religious Sites and the Practice of Religion
3. The Dilemmas of Education in Tibetan Areas
4. In Search of Tibetan Culture
5. Culture As a Way of Life
6. Tibetan Culture on the Margins: Destruction or Reconstruction?
Appendixes
1. Administrative Divisions in the People’s Republic of China
2. Demographic Composition in the Autonomous Prefectures
3. Data on Religions
4. Data on Bilingual Education
5. Place-Names in Chinese and Tibetan
6. Guide for Semi-Structured Interviews
Notes
Chinese and Tibetan Glossary
References
Index
