The Silk Road: From Xi’an to Kashgar. Revised by William Lindesay and Wu Qi.  Hong Kong: Odyssey, 1999.

            -This travel guide is great for grades 6-12.

The Silk Route: 7000 Miles of History by John Major.  Harper Trophy, 1997.

            -Good for grades K-12

SPICE Curriculum Materials

            -all amazing and worthwhile

Passage to India

Malay Trilogy by Anthony Burgess

From Sea to Shining Sea

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Prisoners of Shangri-la by Donald Lopez

Sword and Flute; the Dark Conceptions of the Dark in Hinduism by David Kinsley

Siddhartha

The Influence of Jatakas on Art and Literature by D.C. Ahir (B.R. Publishing Corporation)

Buddhist Birth Stories by C. Rhys-Davids (Dover Edition)

Tales of the Wise and Foolish

India Abroad Weekly-newspaper for Indians living abroad

Spiritual Materialism

Six Stars with a Crocked Neck

Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution

Presenting Tibet: A Slide Package for Educators.  Tibet Education Network at Global Source

Twenty Jataka Tales Retold by Noor Inayat Khan, illustrated by H. Willebeek le Mair

Naomi H. Bishop, Himalayan Herders. (NY: Harcourt Brace, 1998).

Robert E. Fisher, The Art of Tibet (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997).

Jonathan Garfunkel, Approaching Tibetan Studies: A Resource Handbook for Educators (Global Source     Education, 1995).

Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

Melvyn Goldstein, et al. The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

Todd T. Lewis, Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000).

Patrul Rimpoche, Words of My Perfect Teacher. (Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 1998).

Mathew Kapstein, The Tibetans. (NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)

David Zurick, et. all, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya. (University of Kentucky Press, 2006. )

Todd T. Lewis and Theodore Riccardi, Jr. The Himalayas: A Syllabus of the Region's History, Anthropology, and Religion (Ann Arbor: Asian Studies Association, 1995).