This guide equips you with practical and portable information in 242 pages. It contains sections on where to stay, eat and shop, even listing hours of the local post offices. A useful chapter is included on language, complete with useful phrases in Tibetan and Chinese; Lonely Planet also publishes a Tibet phrasebook.
Travellers to Tibet's sacred places will find the concise chapters on history, architecture, and religion to be of interest. These sections also include nice drawings and explanations of sacred symbols and important gods, goddesses, and bodhisattvas. There are, in addition, highlighted mini-sections on sutra and tantra, the mandala, pilgrimage, and the world of a monk.

We are happy to find mention in its 5th edition - August 2001
Page - 123 (Getting There & Away)
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This book is recognised as the most comprehensive guide on the history, culture, art, sacred sites, and pilgrimage routes of Tibet. Chan provides extensive information of Tibet's temples, hermitages, monasteries, burial sites, tombs, and sacred landscape features such as mountains, caves, and lakes. This publication is a great resource, but with over 1,000 pages, only 25 of which focus on practical information, be prepared to add 5 pounds to your backpack!The book is probably best used as a research tool before embarking on your pilgrimage.

Tibet is revealed in all its beauty, magic, and mystery. This award-winning book, now revised and updated, contains an illustrated iconographical guide, a phrase book, and a glossary of terms. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, maps, monastery floor plans, and rare photos of historic places as they once were.