Tibet, Disrupted
Tibet, Disrupted = third edition of this digital photobook released on Earth Day, April 22, 2025.
A beast of a book at over 500 pages in extent, showcasing the work of scores of photo contributors and other sources.
Available on Amazon Kindle platform. First published in 2016. Updated and expanded in second edition 2018. Third edition 2025. Translated into Vietnamese edition, 2021 (on Amazon Kindle).
AWARDS
Tibet, Disrupted is Winner of the Silver Award
Enhanced eBook category
Benjamin Franklin Digital Book Awards
California, USA, 2017
REVIEWS
Tibet, Disrupted
“Powerful and inspirational: This is a precarious situation perched on a precipice, and Buckley has managed to articulate it with strength, dignity and profundity. This is a courageous endeavour. I hope the book does very well, and more pertinently, has an impact on the world's collective consciousness.”
—Siddharth Dasgupta, author of Letters from an Indian Summer
“Tibetophile Michael Buckley has outdone himself, once again, with the third edition of his ebook, Tibet, Disrupted.
“This 500 page-turning illustrated litany of environmental and social crimes being committed by China in the forcibly annexed country of Tibet is both exhaustive, and exhausting to explore.
“Buckley's work is on a par with that of writers Naomi Klein, Wade Davis and other socio/environmental luminaries who are particularly good at examining and bringing to light the 'big picture' topics that beset our modern world.
“This is a highly personal account of ecocide and cultural genocide in Tibet (Buckley has travelled extensively in Tibet and China over the last 40+ years), and one of the burning questions he asks is, "Who will take the climate/environmental refugees? The millions that are being displaced both in Tibet and neighbouring countries by habitat inundation and reduced flows caused by scores of Chinese megadams built on five major rivers sourced in Tibet?”
—Pat Morrow, first mountaineer to climb the highest summits on all seven continents; author of Beyond Everest: Quest for the Seven Summits
“This is a major book, the book the world has been waiting for, about the ethnocide and ecocide of one of the most magical places and most spiritually developed peoples on the planet, a heart-breaking tragedy that has been going on relentlessly and largely unknown and unreported in the West since China forcibly annexed Tibet in 1950. Since Vanity Fair published my Letter From Lhasa: The Silent Killing of Tibet in 1991, the devastation has been accelerating with the completion of the railway from Golmud to Lhasa, the damming of its rivers on whose water India depends, the persecution of followers of the Dalai Lama, the destruction of ancient monasteries and their penetration by Chinese informants, resistance to which—even by nuns immolating themselves—Tibetans are powerless to stop.
“Tibet, Disrupted covers every aspect of this ongoing desecration, the unspeakable horrors that are happening behind the Himalayas. There was a wave of outrage and anguish in the l990s that resulted in five major Hollywood movies, but since then the West has turned its back on the wasting of Tibet. We must all get involved in the struggle to save this incomparable and defenceless land, its rivers, wildlife, and the extraordinary Buddhist culture that evolved there and has so much to teach us all about compassion. The first thing to do is to get this book—one of the most important exposés and most compelling pieces of photojournalism of our time—and become informed.”
—Alex Shoumatoff, author of The World is Burning and other books investigating serious environmental crimes. He created the online site DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com to raise consciousness about the world's fast-disappearing bio-cultural diversity. Among those profiled are Tibetans.
