RESOURCES FROM NEH INSTITUTE: LITERATURES, RELIGIONS and ARTS of the HIMALAYAN REGION 2011
Books,  Articles and Presentations:
Naresh Bajracarya, “The Guru-mandala-Arcana”
Prof. Dina Bangdel, VA Commonwealth University, Art and Architecture of the Himalayan Region: Kashmir; Nepal; Tibet , Presentation,  July 15, 2011
Naomi H. Bishop, Himalayan Herders. (NY: Harcourt Brace, 1998).
Mark Blum, “Mahayana Buddhism” from Kevin Trainor, ed. Buddhism: The
Illustrated Guide. (NY: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Shamanism in the Himalayas,  Dr. Anne de Sales, Centre National de la
Recherché Scientifique
Diana Eck, Darshan: Seeing the Divine in India, 2nd ed. Columbia Univ. Press, 1998
John Esposito & Todd Lewis, Asian Religions Today (NY: Oxford University Press, 2008)
James Fisher, Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan
Nepal (Berkeley: University of California, 1990).
Janet Gyatso, “In the Sacred Realm: Image as Presence”
Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
Lauran Hartley, "Themes of Tradition and Change in Modern Tibetan Literature,"
John Hitchcock, John and Jones, Rex eds. Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas
(New Delhi: Vikas, 1976).
Matthew T. Kapstein, The Tibetans. (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2006
Todd T. Lewis, Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000).
Todd T. Lewis,  Hinduism: Overview of Core Doctrines and Practices, esp. those in the region, Presentation, July 6, 2011
- Hinduism in the Himalayas: Films; The Life of the Buddha, Presentation, July 7,2011
- Ancient Buddhism and Basic Doctrines, Profs. Lewis and van der Kuijp, 7/8/2011
- Buddhism and Hinduism in the Kathmandu Valley, Presentation, July 13, 2011
Lewis and Riccardi, The Himalayas: A Syllabus of the Region's History, Anthropology and Religion, 1995.
John Locke, “An Overview of Newar Buddhism”
A.W. MacDonald, “The Healer in the Nepalese World”
Peter Molnar and Paul Tapponnier, “The Collision between India
and Eurasia,” Scientific American, Volume 236 (4), 1977, 30-41.
Bruce Owens, “Deity, Person, and Practice in the Kathmandu Valley,” American
Ethnologist, Vol. 27, 2000), pp. 702-735
Bruce Owens, Wheaton College Bunga Dyah: The Great Buddhist Deity and his Chariot Festival, Presentation, July 14,2011
Charles Ramble, The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in
Highland Nepal. (NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
Theodore Riccardi, Jr. “Buddhism in Ancient and Early Medieval Nepal”
Patrul Rimpoche, Words of My Perfect Teacher. (Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 1998).
Gregory Schopen, “Mahayana” in Robert Buswell, ed. The Encyclopedia of
Buddhism. (NY: Macmillan, 2004), 492-499.
Cristina Scherer-Schab, Lausanne University, Mahayana Buddhism: What is it? Presentation, July 14,2011
David Zurick, et. al, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya. (Univ. of Kentucky Press, 2006. )
Films:
"Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh”, The Ladakh Project/ISEC, Helena Noberg-Hodge,1980.
 “Timeless Village of the Himalayas: A Pilgrimage to Deoprayag, India” “Wages of Action”
"Bunga Dyah Chariot Festival" Bruce Owens
"Himalayan Herders" a Film By John and Naomi Bishop, Media Generation,2004
Recommended Books for Further Reading:
Bhum, Pema. Six Stars with a Crooked Neck: Tibetan Memoirs of the Cultural
Revolution. Dharamsala: Tibet Times, 2001.Tailing, W. The Secret Tale of Tesur House. Beijing: Tibetology Pub House, 1998.Norbu, Jamyang. Sherlock Homes: The Missing Years. NY: Bloomsbury, 1999.Alai. Red Poppies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. (Chinese original) Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight. Delhi: Viking Penguin, 2011. trans. The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature. Delhi: Penguin, 2011. The Tutor of History. London: Penguin, 2001. Samrat Upadhyay, Arresting God in Kathmandu. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 Michael Hutt, Himalayan Voices. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991.
Special Thanks : To the National Endowment for the Humanities, all the staff of College of the Holy Cross- especially Mary Morrisard-Larkin and her staff at the Scalia Educational Classroom, and to all the presenters and participants, many of whom came very long distances to make this a most informative Institute.