Author: Ngawang Sangdrol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879245006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book tells the story of nine of those nuns and provides a better understanding of the role played by Tibetan nuns in the Tibet freedom movement. Through their personal stories, we are able to have a sense of their life in Tibet, of their motivation to speak up against oppression - despite the certainty that they would be severely punished - and of the importance of Tibetan religion, culture and identity, and why the world should not forsake the Tibetan people.
Tibet in Chains
Author: Ngawang Sangdrol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879245006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book tells the story of nine of those nuns and provides a better understanding of the role played by Tibetan nuns in the Tibet freedom movement. Through their personal stories, we are able to have a sense of their life in Tibet, of their motivation to speak up against oppression - despite the certainty that they would be severely punished - and of the importance of Tibetan religion, culture and identity, and why the world should not forsake the Tibetan people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879245006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book tells the story of nine of those nuns and provides a better understanding of the role played by Tibetan nuns in the Tibet freedom movement. Through their personal stories, we are able to have a sense of their life in Tibet, of their motivation to speak up against oppression - despite the certainty that they would be severely punished - and of the importance of Tibetan religion, culture and identity, and why the world should not forsake the Tibetan people.
Political Prisoners in Tibet
Author: Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
2. The prison system
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
2. The prison system
Prisoners of Shangri-La
Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648548X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapter Three: The Eye -- Chapter Four: The Spell -- Chapter Five: The Art -- Chapter Six: The Field -- Chapter Seven: The Prison -- Notes -- Index
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648548X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Name -- Chapter Two: The Book -- Chapter Three: The Eye -- Chapter Four: The Spell -- Chapter Five: The Art -- Chapter Six: The Field -- Chapter Seven: The Prison -- Notes -- Index
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
Author: Palden Gyatso
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802190006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
“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 interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatso’s story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibet’s proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide. “To readers of this memoir, however untraveled, Tibet will never again seem remote or unfamiliar. . . . Gyatso reminds us that the language of suffering is universal.” —Library Journal “Has the ring of undeniable truth. . . . Palden Gyatso’s clear-sighted eloquence (in Tsering Shakya’s fluent translation) makes his tale even more engrossing.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802190006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
“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 interrogation and torture simply for the strength of his beliefs. Palden Gyatso’s story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the strength of Tibet’s proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide. “To readers of this memoir, however untraveled, Tibet will never again seem remote or unfamiliar. . . . Gyatso reminds us that the language of suffering is universal.” —Library Journal “Has the ring of undeniable truth. . . . Palden Gyatso’s clear-sighted eloquence (in Tsering Shakya’s fluent translation) makes his tale even more engrossing.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Cutting Off the Serpent's Head
Author: Robert Barnett
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564321664
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Delays by the Lamas.
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564321664
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Delays by the Lamas.
Tibet Since 1950
Author: Orville Schell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A look at the political oppression of the Tibetian people by the Chinese government.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A look at the political oppression of the Tibetian people by the Chinese government.
The Struggle for Modern Tibet
Author: Melvyn Goldstein
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765631787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This autobiography of a Tibetan nationalist with a burning desire to reform and modernize the old society presents for the first time a personal portrait of Tibet that is realistic -- neither a feudal hell, as Beijing would have it, nor Shangrila, as many sympathetic outsiders would have it. Tashi's moving story, beginning with his humble early circumstances, covers his search for education in Tibet and the United States, his return to China/Tibet in early 1964, and his life in China, especially during the Cultural Revolution when he was charged as an American spy and imprisoned. Finally exonerated, Tashi became a professor of English at Tibet University and went on to found in 1985 the first English night school in Lhasa. Now retired, he devotes all his efforts to raising funds to build rural schools in his home province, where his still illiterate relatives live.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765631787
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This autobiography of a Tibetan nationalist with a burning desire to reform and modernize the old society presents for the first time a personal portrait of Tibet that is realistic -- neither a feudal hell, as Beijing would have it, nor Shangrila, as many sympathetic outsiders would have it. Tashi's moving story, beginning with his humble early circumstances, covers his search for education in Tibet and the United States, his return to China/Tibet in early 1964, and his life in China, especially during the Cultural Revolution when he was charged as an American spy and imprisoned. Finally exonerated, Tashi became a professor of English at Tibet University and went on to found in 1985 the first English night school in Lhasa. Now retired, he devotes all his efforts to raising funds to build rural schools in his home province, where his still illiterate relatives live.
The Voice that Remembers
Author: Adhe Tapontsang
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861716728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
When Adhe Tapontsang--or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known--left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let the truth about China's occupation go unheard or unchallenged. The Voice That Remembers is an engrossing firsthand account of Ama Adhe's mission and a record of a crucial time in modern Tibetan history. It will forever change how you think about Tibet, about China, and about our shared capacity for survival.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861716728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
When Adhe Tapontsang--or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known--left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let the truth about China's occupation go unheard or unchallenged. The Voice That Remembers is an engrossing firsthand account of Ama Adhe's mission and a record of a crucial time in modern Tibetan history. It will forever change how you think about Tibet, about China, and about our shared capacity for survival.
Rukhag 3
Author: Steven D. Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953201150
Category : Buddhist nuns
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953201150
Category : Buddhist nuns
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Fire Under The Snow
Author: Gyatso Palden
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407066099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407066099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.