HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Beckwith, Christopher..."The Tibetan Empire of Central Asia"...1987
Brauen, Martin (ed)..."Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya"....(Zurich..1993)
Campell, Leroy A......"Mithraic Iconography and Ideology"....Leiden:1968
Decker, Jacqueline...."Nicholas Roerich"...1989..
Eliade, Mircea...History of Religions Vol II: "Spirit, Light, and Seed"...
Eliade..."The Encyclopedia of Religion"...1987
Fox, Robin Lane..."Alexander the Great"...1973
Francke, A.H...."A History of Western Tibet...(1907)
Gimbutas..."The Indo Europeans...Journal of Indo-European Studies"..(2) 1974..4(1976)...5(1977)..
Gafurov,B...."Kushan Studies in the USSR"...Unesco Conference...Dushanbe:1968
Haarh, Erik..."The Zhang Zhung Language: A Grammar and Dictionary"...Acta Jutlandica XL (Humanistisk Serie 47)..(Aarhus/Copenhagen: 1968)
Harmatta, Janos (ed)...."History of Civilizations of Central Asia.....1998
Harmatta, Janos (ed)...."Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia"...1985
Hermann....."An Historical Atlas of China"...1966
Heissig, Walther..."The Religions of Mongolia"...(Samuel: trans)...Berkeley:1980
Hoffman, Helmut..."Tibet: A Handbook...1975
Hoffman..."The Religions of Tibet"...1979
Hoffman..."Several Zan-zun Etymologies"...Journal: Oriens Extremus 12....(Wiesbaden) (1972)
Hoffman..."Manichaeism and Islam in the Buddhist Kalachakra System...(1958)
Hoffman..."Early and Medieval Tibet" (in The Cambridge History of Inner Asia)...(1990)
Humbach, Helmut..."Mithra in India"...Acta Iranica # 17.....Leiden: 1978
Knobloch, Edgar..."Beyond the Oxus"...(1972)
Kvaerne..."Chronological Table of the Bonpo"..Acta Orientalia (33)...Copenhagen:1971
Lincoln, Bruce..."Priests, Warriors, and Cattle"...1981
Litvinsky, B.A. (ed)..."History of Civilizations of Central Asia...Vol III...1992
MacDonald, A.D...."Study of the Tibetan Royal Court in the 6-8th Century"...(Paris:1971)
Macdonnell, A.A...."Vedic Mythology Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research".....1897
Martinez, P. ..."Gardizi's Two Chapters on the Turks" ...1982
McLoone, Margo..."Women Explorers in Asia"....1997
Neuser, Jacob (ed)...."Religions in Antiquity".....Leiden:1968
Norbu..."The Necklace of Gzi: Cultural History of Tibet"...1981
Phillips, E.D...."The Royal Hordes: Nomad Peoples of the Steppes"...1965
Richardson, Hugh..."Three Ancient Inscriptions from Tibet" ...1949
Richardson..."Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year"...1994
Richardson..."Tibet and its History"...(1962)
Sinor, Denis..."The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia"...Cambridge:1990
Snellgrove, David..."Cultural History of Tibet"...1968
Stein, Sir Aurel..."Tibetan Civilization"...1972
Stein..."On Ancient Central Asian Tracks"...1964
Tucci..."To Lhasa and Beyond"...
Tucci..."The Tombs of the Tibetan Kings"...Roma: IsMEO...1950
Tucci..."The Sacral Character of the Ancient Tibetan Kings" in "East and West"...6/1955
Uray, Geza..."On the Tibetan letters BA and WA"...1985
Uray..."Tibet's Connection with Nestorianism and Manicheism in the 8th-10th Centuries."...1983
Uray..."The Four Horns of Tibet according to the Royal Annals"...1960
Uray..."Sources on the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia" (ed: Harmatta)...(1979)
Whitfield, Roderick..."Art of Central Asia: Paintings from Dunhuang"...1981
Whitfield..."Art of Central Asia: The Stein Collection in the British Museum"...1983

DEITIES, SPIRITS, GODS & GODDESSES

Blondeau, Anne-Marie..."Scroll of Gods and Demons"...
Clemente, Adriano "The sGra bla, Gods of the Ancestors of Shenrab Miwo"..Tibetan Studies: Per Kvaerne (ed)....Fagerness:1994
Gimbutas, Marija..."Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000-3500 BC"...1974
Gimbutas...From the Realm of the Ancestors"...1997
Grapard, Allan...."The Protocol of the Gods"....1992
Gyatso, Janet..."Down With the Demoness: Reflections on a Feminine Ground in Tibet" in "Essays on Women & Tibet" (ed:Willis)..1989
Pettey, Richard...."Asherah"....1990
Kuznetsov, B.I...."Highest Deities of the Tibetan Bon Religion"...Tibet Journal:#6
Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Rene..."Oracles and Demons of Tibet"...(1956)

SACRED AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Allen, Charles..."A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Kailas"..1982
Thomas, Andrew..."Shambhala: Oasis of Light"...1977
Bernbaum, Edwin..."The Way To Shambhala"...1980
Bishop..."The Myth of Shangri-la"...1989
Blondeau, Anne-Marie (ed) & Ernst Steinkellner.."Reflections of The Mountain"..Wissenschaften.(ISBN:19963700126115?)
Buffetrille, Katia..."A Bonpo Pilgrimage to Amye Machen Mountain"....(Lungta (8): 1994)
Buffetrille...."The Blue Lake of Amdo and Its Island"...Tibet Journal: 20/3
Brooke, Elaine..."In Search of Shambhala"...London:1996 (ISBN=0224036505?)
Cameron, Ian..."Mountains of the Gods"...1985
Cech, Krystyna..."A Religious Geography of Tibet According to the Bon Tradition"...Tibetan Studies (5)
Clark, Leonard..."The Marching Wind...A Trek To Amne Machin"....New York: 1954
George, Sir James..."Searching For Shambhala"...SEARCH: ed: Sulzberger...1979
Grapard, A.G...."Flying Mountains and Walkers of Emptiness: Toward a Definition of Sacred Space in Japan"...in 'History of Religions':1982
Kamtrul Rinpoche..."Geography and History of Shambhala"..Tibet Journal..#3 1978
Keay, John..."When Men and Mountains Meet"...1977
Kuznetsov, B.I.and Lev Gumilyev..."Two Traditions of Ancient Tibetan Cartography"...Soviet Geography:New York Geographic Society (Sept: 1970)
Kuznetsov & Gumilev...(Leningrad University)..."The Country Shambhala in Legend and History"....Russian Journal: Aziya i Afrika Segod Nya (1968: Number 5)
LIFE MAGAZINE...."Amne Machin Mountain"....October 1949
MacDonald, A.W. (ed).."Mandala and Landscapes"...Delhi:1997
Ossendowski...(Mongolian Version of Shambhala)...1922
Richer, Jean..."Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks"...1995
Rock..."Seeking the Mountains of Mystery"....National Geographic...Feb 1930
Tibet Journal..."Geography & History of Shambhala"...by Kamtrul...1978(3)(3)
Tibet Journal..."Ancient Tibetan Cosmology"...by Hoffman...1977(2)(4)

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