Beyond Kailash, Across Western Tibet 10"x8" Book

£75.00

A journey through Western Tibet to Mt Kailash, Tsaparang & the old kingdom of Gu-ge.

A self published book of a journey through Western Tibet to Mt Kailash, the ancient kingdom of Gu-ge and the ruins of Tholing & Tsaparang.

Photos, text & design by Peter Bennion (Mahaprasara), one of the owners of the Silk Road Gallery. This edition is a 10”x8” landscape format photo book & narrative of the journey the author took in 2014.

Here you can preview the whole book & order a pdf. It is published by Blurb.

You can buy the 128 page hardback from Blurb or, recommended, a signed copy direct from the author at the Silk Road Gallery.

It is also available in other formats. Some of the photographs are for sale in the Photographs Collection.

Gu-ge is where Atisha revived Buddhism in Tibet in the 11th Century. It is the location Tholing monastery & the deserted citadel of Tsaparang - places described by Lama Govinda in the Tibet travel classic "The Way of the White Clouds".

The Buddhist art at Tholing & Tsaparang was mostly destroyed in China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960's but this book describes encounters & the journey across Western Tibet, the pilgrimage around Mt Kailash & the remains of the temples of Gu-ge - it is a unique contemporary document of this remote part of Tibet.

Landscape format 10”x8” 128 pages.