Pilgrims Book House

Pilgrims Book House is a publishing and bookselling company founded in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1984.^[1] It formerly published books under the Book Faith India imprint and now publishes under the Pilgrims Publishing imprint. Pilgrims Book House is currently headquartered in Varanasi, India.

Pilgrims Book House sells and publishes books in a number of South Asian and Western languages. Its areas of speciality include:

• Buddhism
• Hinduism and yoga
• mountaineering
• reprints of classic books on India, Nepal, Tibet and Central Asia
• languages (Nepali, Tibetan, Hindi)
• children's books

Company History

Pilgrims Book House was established by Puspa and Ramanand ("Rama") Tiwari in Kathmandu in 1984,^[2] succeeding the Tiwaris' earlier book business in Varanasi. In the year 1999 they started a branch in Varanasi, and in 2006 a second branch opened in Delhi.

For many years the main Pilgrims Book House bookshop branch in Kathmandu was located in Thamel. It was one of the largest bookshops in Asia with hundreds of thousands of books on display. On 16 May 2013 that bookshop caught fire and almost everything inside was burnt to ashes.

Since the fire Pilgrims has operated two bookshops, one at JP Road, Thamel, Kathmandu and the other at Durgakund, Varanasi.

Pilgrims Book House's books are also available directly from its Internet website.

Publications

Pilgrims Book House has published more than 500 books. These include:

• H. W. Tilman, Mount Everest 1938, Pilgrims Publishing, ISBN 81-7769-175-9 (contains the infamous Appendix B on the Yeti)
• H. W. Tilman, Nepal Himalaya, Pilgrims Publishing, ISBN 81-7303-107-X
• W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, ISBN 81-7769-099-X
• Paul Brunton, A Message from Arunachala, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, ISBN 978-81-7769-785-8
• Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Lankavatara Sutra, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, ISBN 81-7769-298-4
• A. P. Sinnett, Esoteric Buddhism, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, ISBN 81-7769-432-4
• B. D. Tripathi, Sadhus of India, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, ISBN 81-7769-631-9

References

1. ↑ Snyder, John (1 December 2013). "History". pilgrimsonlineshop.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. 
2. ↑ Snyder, John (1 December 2013). "History". pilgrimsonlineshop.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. 

External links

• Official website
• Mention of Rama Tiwari and Pilgrims Book House in The New York Times review of "Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail From Istanbul to India" by Rory MacLean http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/books/review/Stern-t.html?_r=0
• Article in Buenos Aires Review about the fire that destroyed the firm's famous bookstore in Kathmandu http://www.buenosairesreview.org/2013/07/pilgrims-book-house-en/
• Article in Seopati profiling Ramanand Tiwari (in Nepali) the firm's owner http://setopati.com/samaj/779/
• Profile of the firm before the fire http://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2013/farewell-to-the-pilgrims-book-house-kathmandu/
• Article on the fire that destroyed Pilgrims Book House in Kathmandu (many photos) https://500px.com/shashankji/stories/89742/after-the-fire-pilgrims-book-house