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Eastern History, Philosophy and Spirituality
Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses: Spiritual Secrets of Ayurveda by Dr. David Frawley, illustrated by Margo Gal A rare and worthwhile book for those who wish to delve deeper.
Alison Wright is an awesome photographer, an eloquent writer, and specializes in the difficult task of documenting the traditions and changes of endangered people in remote areas around the world. Her book "The Spirit of Tibet: Portrait of a Culture in Exile" was published in 1998. You've seen Alison's work in magazines and newspapers worldwide, it includes photo essays on medicinal healers in the Amazon rainforests, the hill tribes of South East Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, Burmese refugees in Thailand, Marco Polo's footsteps across the Silk Road of China and Pakistan, as well as life in the outback of Australia, where she lived for two years. She also leads photographic/cultural tours for Geographic Expeditions to Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. Based in Nepal for four years while documenting the plight of children for UNICEF and various other aid organizations, she was the 1993 recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in documentary photography for her photographs of child labor in Asia. Since then, she has lived with exiled Tibetans in Nepal and India for over a decade, recording their culture and the challenges which exile has brought. Originally funded by Kodak, her traveling photo exhibition of Tibetan culture helped establish a permanent wing dedicated to visual anthropology in the Phoebe Hearst Museum. "The Spirit of Tibet" is the culmination of 8 years' work, going back and back again to document the same peoples, the same places. Alison brings a rare understanding of the issues we struggle to comprehend. Look for her work in magazines and newspapers, too.
An Englishman's spiritual tour of the world.
Pamela Logan's website describes many of her adventures, she has traveled over a good bit of the People's Republic: by plane, train, ferry, bus, truck, horse, bicycle, yak-hide coracle and on foot. In 1996 the Scientific Exploration Society of Great Britain named her Woman Explorer of the Year. In 1997 she was elected a Fellow of the Explorer's Club. Pam is the director of the China Exploration & Research Society and Kham Aid Foundation project for conservation of Tibetan art and architecture, where she leads teams of foreign experts to the eastern Tibetan plateau to travel by bus and horseback to visit Baiya and Palpung Monasteries. Her book, "Among Warriors: A Martial Artist in Tibet," was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as among the best travel books of the year. In 1997 she founded the Kham Aid Foundation, a California nonprofit corporation dedicated to cultural and ecological preservation in the eastern Tibetan plateau, and increased economic opportunity for Tibetans. In partnership with the China Exploration & Research Society, and the newly-created Eurasian Origins Foundation, she is analyzing synthetic aperture radar images of the southern Taklamakan desert in search of undiscovered Silk Road cities (yeah, yeah, she's also a rocket scientist). For 20 years she has been training directly under Tsutomu Ohshima within Shotokan Karate of America. In 1995 she joined a team of Russian archeologists sponsored by the Golden Griffin Foundation in excavating a Scythian burial mound in a region called Mongun Taiga, located in western Tuva, autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Right now she's helping restore Tibetan monasteries. Her name in China is Luo Bailian, which means White Lotus.
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