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The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

“With this memoir by a ‘simple monk’ who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard.” —The New York Times Book Review Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteen—just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1967, the Chinese destroyed monasteries across Tibet and forced thousands of monks into labor camps and prisons. Gyatso spent the next twenty-five years of his life enduring i...

Fire Under The Snow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Fire Under The Snow

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-30
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  • Publisher: Random House

In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life and irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of the Chinese.

Fire Under the Snow
  • Language: en

Fire Under the Snow

In 1992, the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after 33 years of incarceration in Chinese prisons in Tibet, and fled to India, bringing with him the instruments of his torture. This book contains the story of his life.

Ich, Palden Gyatso, Mönch aus Tibet
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 303

Ich, Palden Gyatso, Mönch aus Tibet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Directions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Directions

Exploring a karmic network in 25,320 kilometres After twenty years in the Indian Administrative Service, P.G. Tenzing throws off the staid life of a bureaucrat to roar across India on an Enfield Thunderbird, travelling light with his possessions strapped on the back of his bike. On the nine-month motorcycle journey without a pre-planned route or direction, he encounters acquaintances who appear to be from his karmic past: from the roadside barber to numerous waiters and mechanics-- fleeting human interactions and connections that seem pre-ordained. Life on the road is full of pot holes in more ways than one, but Tenzing acquires a wheelie's sixth sense. He is unfazed by suspicious hotel rece...

My Appeal to the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

My Appeal to the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Tibet House

Every March 10th, from 1961 until 2011, in commemoration of the greatest uprising of the Tibetan people against the Chinese military occupation, the Dalai Lama delivered an appeal to the world on behalf of his people. Each statement is a heartfelt call to recognize the truth and the factual reality of Tibet's history and situation; a cry for help, a plea for justice, and a pledge of determination to withstand the worst and to overcome. In these annual addresses, he began to articulate and fully express his overarching appeal to humanity. All of the Dalai Lama's March 10th speeches, at their most poignant and eloquent, are collected here, introduced and historically contextualized by Sofia Stril-Rever, an author and scholar of Tibetan history and culture and Buddhist spirituality who has long served as his French translator. Here in this book is his appeal to us all. The people of all nations have heard it and have tried to help, but their governments still have not dared to stand up effectively for justice on behalf of the Tibetan people and for recognition of the basic human rights to which we all are entitled. --Publisher's description.

Fire Under the Snow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Fire Under the Snow

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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In the service of the 13th and 14th Dalai Lama
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 368

In the service of the 13th and 14th Dalai Lama

There is probably no personality in modern (pre '59) Tibetan politics more colourful or controversial than Kashopa Choegyal Nyima. Most major histories of modern Tibet mention him, some like Shakabpa favourably, others like Goldstein in less flattering terms. In spite of his lengthy and contentious political career Kashopa has, unfortunately, not received more in-depth attention from historians and scholars, which is a pity as he was quite deeply involved in some of the most consequential events of modern Tibetan history: the Lungshar conspiracy, the imprisonment of Gedun Choephel, the Sera War and more. One scholar has gone so far as to note that "Kashopa's presence is felt in every aspect ...

Ich, Palden Gyatso, Mönch aus Tibet.
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 286

Ich, Palden Gyatso, Mönch aus Tibet.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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English in Tibet, Tibet in English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

English in Tibet, Tibet in English

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-11-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores two kinds of self-presentation in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora: that of British writers in their travel texts to Tibet from 1774 to 1910 and that of Tibetans in recent autobiographies in English. McMillin contends that Tibet and the Anglophone West have had a long, complex, and convoluted relationship that can be explored, in part, through analysis of English language texts. The first part of the book explores how a myth of epiphany in Tibet comes to dominate English texts of travel in Tibet, while the second part considers how Tibetan autobiographers writing in English have responded and resisted Western images of them.