Stories Set in Lhasa

Lhasa is a high mountain-valley city on the Tibetan Plateau built around temples and pilgrim circuits. Centuries as the center of Tibetan Buddhism gathered monasteries and the Dalai Lamas' palace here, so stories about it follow devotion, journeys and life at altitude. Seven Years in Tibet and Paths of the Soul follow that pilgrim road in different ways. Open Lhasa on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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4 famous stories set in Lhasa

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Browse 2 books and 2 movies set in Lhasa.

Seven Years in Tibet

Sony Pictures-TriStar Pictures-Mandalay Entertainment-Applecross-Reperage & Vanguard Films

movie

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war.…

Setting: Lhasa, TibetTime Period: 1940s

Passion

by Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author)

book

Luce would die for Daniel.And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn’t need…

Setting: ['Louisville, Kentucky (United States)', 'Moskow (Russian Federation)', 'Milan (Italy)', 'Helston (United Kingdom)', 'Tahiti', 'Lhasa (China)', 'Versailles (France)', 'Paris (France)', 'London, England', 'Central Greenland (Greenland)', 'Chichen Itza (Mexico)', 'Jerusalem (Israel)', 'Yinchuan (China)', 'Memphis (Egypt)', "Heaven's Gate", 'Savannah, Georgia (United States)']Time Period: 2000

Paths of the Soul

He Li Chen Guang International Culture Media Co

movie

A group of Tibetan villagers leave their families and homes to make a "bowing pilgrimage" — laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps — along the 2000-kilometre road to Lhasa. During their months on…

Setting: Tibet, China; Lhasa, Tibet, ChinaTime Period: 2015

Seven Years in Tibet

by Heinrich Harrer

book

Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.

Setting: ['Tibet', 'Lhasa (China)']Time Period: 1943; World War II

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