Summary: "When a young man notices several thefts of sought-after Tibetan mastiffs from local farms, he decides to sell his family's dog before it is stolen and sold on the black market. His father, an aging Tibetan herder, is furious when he discovers their dog missing. His search to buy back his dog leads to a series of tragicomic events that threaten to tear the family apart, while showing the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OLD

Summary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THA

Summary: A dramatization of the life and work of the current (14th) Dalai Lama and his ongoing struggle to regain independence for Tibet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KUN

Summary: Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Seven

Robeson, Teresa

Summary: "Follow the 14th Dalai Lama's harrowing escape to India in 1959, as he fled Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet. A story of risk and political tension, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the incredible story of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAL

Thurman, Robert A. F.

Summary: Explores why the Dalai Lama has earned the world's love and respect, and how restoring Tibet's autonomy within China is not only possible, but also highly probable.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 THU

Scorsese, Martin

Summary: Documents Martin Scorsese's experience with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people while making his film "Kundun."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IN

Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso

Summary: A forefront Buddhist leader describes his witness to the torture and arrest of his family and teachers by Chinese authorities, his suffering at the sides of fellow monks under occupier "reeducation" practices, and his eventual escape to Tibet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOB

Dalai Lama XIV

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1995

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 951.505 DAL