Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo's GUIDE TO CENTRAL TIBET by Matthew AkesterThe earliest and best known guidebook to Tibet, composed by the greatest modern master of Tibetan Buddhism (Jamyang Khyents Wangpo 1820 92), has long been consulted by specialists. It was first translated by students of Giuseppe Tucci in Rome in the 1950s, when the academic study of Tibetan culture was still in its formative period. This book is the long awaited result of an extraordinary research adventure, compiled over more than a decade of