during the Cultural Revolution, destroying the vast majority of historic Tibetan architecture. References Further reading Bell, Charles (1946) Portrait of a Dalai Lama: the Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth by Charles Alfred Bell, Sir Charles Bell, Publisher: Wisdom Publications (MA), January 1987, (first published as Portrait of the Dalai Lama: London: Collins, 1946). Bell, Charles (1924) Tibet: Past and Present. Oxford: Clarendon Press Bell, Charles (1931) The Religion of Tibet. Oxford: Clarendon Press Gelek, Surkhang Wangchen. 1982. "Tibet: The Critical Years (Part 1) The Thirteenth Dalai Lama". The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII, No. 4. Winter 1982, pp. 11–19. Goldstein, Melvyn C. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: the demise of the Lamaist state (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, pp. 376–451. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. . Richardson, Hugh E.(1984): Tibet & its History. Boulder and London: Shambala. . Samten, Jampa. (2010). "Notes on the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's Confidential Letter to the Tsar of Russia." In: The Tibet Journal, Special issue. Autumn 2009 vol XXXIV n. 3-Summer 2010 vol XXXV n. 2. "The Earth Ox Papers", edited by Roberto Vitali, pp. 357–370. Smith, Warren (1997):Tibetan Nation. New Delhi: HarperCollins. Tamm, Eric Enno. "The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China." Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2010, Chapter 17 & 18. . See http://horsethatleaps.com Tsering Shakya (1999): The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet since 1947. London:Pimlico. The Wonderful Rosary of Jewels. An official biography compiled for the Tibetan Government, completed in February 1940 External links The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tubten Gyatso by Tsering Shakya 1876 births 1933 deaths A3 Place of birth missing 19th-century Tibetan people 20th-century Tibetan people