★ It has been reprinted 6 times! It has been a bestseller for more than a decade!
★ Read the book Tibet of One to learn about Tibetan culture! It is an encyclopedic travel notes about Tibet, embodying the author’s dozens of trips to Tibet over 20 years.
★ It is reviewed by readers as “a very spiritual book” with local customs and practices of Tibet and history and culture of Tibetan Buddhist as well as life insight during the journey and rich real emotional ups and downs…

“If Utpala is offered to the Buddha, I the bee would also like to be converted to Buddhism.” This was the verse he wrote on the log table in Rlung Rta Tibetan Restaurant with his finger dipped in the barley wine.
“He” was the Tibetan man who firmly considered me as the incarnation of Green Tara at first sight. It was also he that made my traveling alone in the remote hinterland of Tibetan Plateau more fulfilling yet more unreal. Nevertheless, after visiting one temple after another and being enlightened over and over again, I finally understood the meaning of his verse. In spite of my solitary journey in Tibet full of hardships, till now, with my eyes closed, the blue and white cotton door curtain at Rlung Rta Tibetan Restaurant will come to my mind clearly, which was sewed with the Eight Auspicious Signs, and also the bright sunshine of the plateau through the delicately carved window lattice…

Tang Yun is a senior female Tibetan book writer. She serves as a member of China Writers Association with Master’s degrees in medicine and literature. Ms. Tang has published lots of books, such as a collection of stories Cotton Boll, collections of essays Our Snail House and Birds and Domino of Time, long cultural proses Left Bank of Yellow River, Tibet of One and Another Time in North China, human geography books The Ethereal Qinghai and The Ethereal Origin of Yellow River, novels Anchovy and Padma Paramita, and a translation Languages in the World of Thinking. Her master work Tibet of One is publicly praised by and popular among Tibetan culture loves and Tibetan tourists. She wrote special features on Tibet for brand publications such as Chinese National Geography, which won multiple prizes. She lives in Beijing and serves PLA Academy of Arts there now.