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Tibet’s Earliest Guidebook: A Journey Book Launch and Lecture by Matthew Akester

During the 1990s, Matthew Akester walked the length and breadth of Central Tibet in the tracks of the greatest modern master of Tibetan Buddhism, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, 1820-1892. Akester will share his extraordinary research adventure involving more than a decade of independent travel, textual archaeology, field interviews, and photo research, and introduce his new book Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo’s Guide to Central Tibet, an illustrated translation of the earliest and best-known guidebook to Tibet.

During his journey, Akester visited more than 200 places listed in the Guide, meeting the people who rebuilt them after the Cultural Revolution or who could remember what they once were, searching out Tibetan literary sources that shed even the faintest light on their history, and mapping them on a landscape rendered unrecognizable by the rapid construction of a new Chinese Tibet. This book is a monumental contribution to Tibetan studies, a treasure of insight into central Tibet’s history and monuments, the world of traditional pilgrimage, and the life and times of the great Khyentsé Wangpo.











When: Fri., Nov. 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St.
212-620-5000
Price: $20
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During the 1990s, Matthew Akester walked the length and breadth of Central Tibet in the tracks of the greatest modern master of Tibetan Buddhism, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, 1820-1892. Akester will share his extraordinary research adventure involving more than a decade of independent travel, textual archaeology, field interviews, and photo research, and introduce his new book Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo’s Guide to Central Tibet, an illustrated translation of the earliest and best-known guidebook to Tibet.

During his journey, Akester visited more than 200 places listed in the Guide, meeting the people who rebuilt them after the Cultural Revolution or who could remember what they once were, searching out Tibetan literary sources that shed even the faintest light on their history, and mapping them on a landscape rendered unrecognizable by the rapid construction of a new Chinese Tibet. This book is a monumental contribution to Tibetan studies, a treasure of insight into central Tibet’s history and monuments, the world of traditional pilgrimage, and the life and times of the great Khyentsé Wangpo.

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