literatures, religions, and arts of the himalayan region
[Nancy L. Barboza] [nbarboza@freelake.org]
[Assawompset School, Lakeville, Massachusetts]
Himalaya Thematic Unit for Second Grade]
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Where are the Himalaya?
Regions within the Himalaya

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Resources

Resources:

Jataka Tales:
Yet More Tales from the Jatakas, India Book House, 2001.
Further Tales from the Jatakas, India Book House, 2002.
Frye, Stanley, translator.  Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish or Ocean of Narratives. India: Library of Tibetan Works, c1981, 2000.
Kindness: a treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents. Collected and adapted by Sarah Conover. Eastern Washington University Press, c2005.

Read Alouds:
Berger, Barbara Helen.  All the Way to Lhasa. NJ: Penguin, Putnam, 2002.
Brown, Don. Far Beyond the Golden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel’s Journey to Lhasa.
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Craig, Sienna. Clear Sky, Red Earth: a Himalayan Story. Nepal: Mera Publications, c2004.
Demi. The Dalai Lama. NY:Holt, c1998.
Dixit, Kanak Mani.  Adventures of a Nepali Frog. Nepal: Pilgims Bk, 1996.
Hermes, Jules. The Children of India. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, c1993.
Dolphin, Laurie. Our Journey from Tibet: based on a true story. NY: Dutton Children's Books, c1997.
Krishnaswami, Uma. Monsoon. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c2003.
Lewis, Ted.  Sacred River. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Mountains:
Baldwin, Carol. Living on a Mountain. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2004.
“Collision Between India and Eurasia,” Scientific American, 236:4. April 1977.
Lewis, Todd T. and Theodore Riccardi, Jr. The Himalayas: A Syllabus of the Regions History, Anthropology and Religion.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Association for Asian Studies, c1995.
The Mountains Institute and the National Council for Social Studies: Mountains: A Global Resource.  A Special Supplement to Social Education, September 1999.
Everest panorama:
Smith, Frances. The First Book of Mountains.
NY: Franklin Watts, 1964.
Kapit, Wynn. The Geography Coloring Book.  Prentice Hall, 2002.
Zurick, David et al. Illustrated Atlas of the Himalayas.
University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Literature:
Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Translated by L. Hartley. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

Recipes:

Dorje, Rinjing. Food in Tibetan Life. London: Prospect, 1985.
Explore Tibet. NJ: The Newark Museum, c1992.

 

 
This site was created by Nancy Barboza at the NEH Summer Institute "Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2008.