Selected Bibliography

 

Alexander , Andre <al-iskandar@gmx.net>.  5 October 2005.  Re: MoreMeru.I  [Email to Will Rourk <will@virginia.edu>].

 

Alexander , Andre, John Harrison and Pimpim de Azevedo 1999. Barkor Map. Berlin : published by VFKA / THF.

 

Alexander , Andre, John Harrison and Pimpim de Azevedo (ed.s) 1999.  A Clear Lamp Illuminating The Significance And Origin Of Historic Buildings And Monuments In Lhasa Barkor Street (Lhasa Old City Vol. II). Berlin : published by VFKA / THF.

 

Alexander , Andre and Pimpim de Azevedo 1998. The Old City Of Lhasa.  Berlin : published by VFKA/THF.

 

Alexander , Andre 2005. The Temples of Lhasa: Tibetan Buddhist Architecture from the 7th to the 21st Centuries (Tibet Heritage Fund's Conservation Inventory) (Tibet Heritage Fund's Conservation Inventory).  Chicago : Serindia Publications.

 

Bernier, Ronald M. 1997. Himalayan architecture. London : Madison : Fairleigh                     Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Press.

 

Bussagli, Mario, translated by John Shepley 1989. Oriental Architecture, Vol 1.  New York : Electa/Rizzoli International Publications.

 

Das , Sarat Chandra 1979. A Tibetan-English Dictionary, Botilal Banarsidass Indological Publishers.

 

Chan, Victor 1994. Tibet Handbook. Chico, Calif. : Moon Publications.

 

Fisher, Robert E. 1993. Buddhist Art and Architecture. London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson.

 

Germano, David, Tsering Gyalpo and Buchong 2003. A Synoptic and Map-Based Introduction to the Rooms In the Meru Nyingba Monastic Complex. Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (database source), University of Virginia.

 

Larsen, Knud and Amund Sinding-Larsen 2001. The Lhasa Atlas :Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape. Serindia.

 

Lhasa Architecture. In The Tibet Heritage Fund. Retrieved 19 October 2005. <http://www.tibetheritagefund.org/>.

 

Meru Nyingba Monastary. In Tibet Heritage Fund, 76 Houses at AsianArt.org.  Retrieved 10 October 2005. <http://www.asianart.com/lhasa_restoration/76houses/merunyingba/index.html>.

 

Nechung - The State Oracle of Tibet. In The Government of Tibet in Exile. Retrieved 16 November 2005, <http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/nechung_hh.html> .

 

Pommaret, Françoise 2003. Buddhist Monasteries in Tibet.  In The Buddhist Monastery : A Cross-cultural Survey, Pierre Pichard and François Lagirarde (ed.s), 283-304.  Paris : Ecole Française d'Extréme-Orient.

 

Rajesh, M. N. 1998. The Buddhist Monastery. New Delhi : Lustre Press, Roli Books.

 

Snellgrove, David L. and Hugh Richardson c1995.  A Cultural History of Tibet. Boston ; London : Shambhala : Dist. in the U.S. by Random House.

 

Stein, R A 1972.  Tibetan Civilization.  Stanford University Press.

 

Thubten Legshay Gyatsho, the Eighteenth Chogay Trichen ; translated by David Paul Jackson 1979.  Gateway to the temple : manual of Tibetan monastic customs, art, building, and celebrations : originally entitled A requisite manual for faith and adherence to the Buddhist teaching, including the way of entering the door of religion, the root of the teaching, the method for erecting temples, the resting place of the teaching, and cycle of religious duties, the performance of the teaching, Kathmandu, Nepal : Ratna Pustak Bhandar.

 

Tucci, Giuseppe, translated by J. E. Stapleton Driver 1973. Tibet : Land of Snow. London : P. Elek.

 

Vitali, Roberto 1990. Early Temples of Central Tibet.  Serindia Publications.