Andreas Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Kham - Volume 1. The Xizang Part of Kham (TAR), White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2004. (ISBN974-480-049-6)
Tsering Shakya: The Dragon in the Land of Snows. A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, London 1999, (ISBN0-14-019615-3)