Description
This Czech-language critical edition presents the diary entries of the first Czechoslovak visitors to Tibet. Cinematographer Josef Vaniš and director Vladimír Sís each kept a diary during their journey. Their entries capture Tibet just a few years after the Chinese occupation, when the country, its people and its culture still retained much of the former society, then led by the eighteen-year-old Dalai Lama, whom the authors met personally. The diaries contain a wealth of unknown and new information about Chinese and Tibetan society at the time, together with numerous previously unpublished photographs. The diary of director Vladimír Sís, offering a parallel yet in many respects different perspective, is published as a separate volume. Editors Luboš Bělka, a scholar of religion specialising in Tibetan Buddhism, and sinologist Kamila Hladíková accompany the original texts with studies of their historical, political and social context.
Information
Author: Vaniš Josef
Language: Czech
Publication date: December 1, 2025
Manufacturer: HOST - vydavatelství, s.r.o.
Genres: Travel books and reports, Books, Travel, Fiction
Type: Books - paperback
ISBN/EAN: 9788027526765