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Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1991. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photographs. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, illustrated with 16 B&W and color plates, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a [Dalai?] Lama meeting a Chinese official [Emperor?], bibliography, red ribbon page-marker, vii, [viii] + 442 pages. Ya Hanzhang was born in China to a Han family; then went to Tibet where he studied (or became) a monk and secretary to "Grand Living Buddha Jamyang." After studying Tibetan lamas, due to bad health, he wentback to China in 1958, where he sered for a time as the vice-chairman of The Institute of Native Minorities in Beijing. This English edition corrects some errors in its Chinese precursor. His perspectives on Tibetan affairs and the current Dalai Lama often seem to reflect Chinese points of view. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy with bright unfoxed illustrations.
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- Title The Biographies of the Dalai Lamas
- Author Han-Chang Ya
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 442
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Foreign Languages Press, Beijing.
- Date 1991
- ISBN 9787119012674 / 7119012673
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96915667
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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