Coming Home To Tibet
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Coming Home To Tibet
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Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2016-07-12
Coming Home To Tibet written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this compelling, poetic memoir of love, loss, and longing, a daughter's pilgrimage to her mother's native Tibet becomes a journey of homecoming and self-discovery. In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother, and a homeland that she knew little about. Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.
The Politics Of Sorrow
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Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-12-03
The Politics Of Sorrow written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-03 with History categories.
The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner of unity. To contest Chinese colonization and stand up for self-determination, Tibetan refugees were asked to shed regional allegiances and embrace a vision of a shared national identity. The Politics of Sorrow tells the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of chieftains and lamas from the regions of Kham and Amdo, who sought to preserve Tibet’s cultural diversity in exile. They established settlements in India in the mid-1960s with the goal of protecting their regional and religious traditions, setting them apart from the majority of Tibetan refugees, who saw a common tradition as the basis for unifying the Tibetan people. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa traces these different visions for Tibetan governance and identity, juxtaposing the Tibetan government in exile’s external struggle for international recognition with its lesser-known internal struggle to command loyalty within the diaspora. She argues that although unity was necessary for democracy and independence, it also drew painful boundaries between those who belonged and those who didn’t. Drawing on insightful interviews with Tibetan elders and an exceptional archive of Tibetan exile texts, The Politics of Sorrow is a compelling narrative of a tumultuous time that reveals the complexities of Tibetan identities then and now.
A Home In Tibet
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Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-09-01
A Home In Tibet written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother’s ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter’s haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.
Tibet
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Author : Thuten Kesang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Tibet written by Thuten Kesang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Immigrants categories.
Thuten Kesang QSM, was born and raised in the independent country of Tibet. After spending his early years in the Sera Monastery in Lhasa, he was taken by his father across the border into India for his education, being enrolled at Dr Graham's Homes in Kalimpong, Northern India. A s a result of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Thuten discovered that he had become an orphan - a refugee in India - but, through the generosity of a benefactor, he was able to continue his education at Homes, repaying the kindness shown to him by completing his studies successfully. After working hard to finish an extensive apprenticeship for printing, he migrated to New Zealand and began a new chapter in his life journey. 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Thuten's arrival in New Zealand and also the 46th anniversary of his marriage to Gwen which has blessed them with two happily married daughters and three grandchildren"--Back cover.
The Struggle For Modern Tibet The Autobiography Of Tashi Tsering
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Author : Melvyn C. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-24
The Struggle For Modern Tibet The Autobiography Of Tashi Tsering written by Melvyn C. Goldstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Political Science categories.
This captivating autobiography by a Tibetan educator and former political prisoner is full of twists and turns. Born in 1929 in a Tibetan village, Tsering developed a strong dislike of his country's theocratic ruling elite. As a 13-year-old member of the Dalai Lama's personal dance troupe, he was frequently whipped or beaten by teachers for minor infractions. A heterosexual, he escaped by becoming a drombo, or homosexual passive partner and sex-toy, for a well-connected monk. After studying at the University of Washington, he returned to Chinese-occupied Tibet in 1964, convinced that Tibet could become a modernized society based on socialist, egalitarian principles only through cooperation with the Chinese. Denounced as a 'counterrevolutionary' during Mao's Cultural Revolution, he was arrested in 1967 and spent six years in prison or doing forced labor in China. Officially exonerated in 1978, Tsering became a professor of English at Tibet University in Lhasa. He now raises funds to build schools in Tibet's villages, emphasizing Tibetan language and culture.
Rules Of The House
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Author : Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Rules Of The House written by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Dhompa's potent suite of poems elucidates the humanness and adversities of the Tibetan diaspora. You enter the immigrant girl-child's bifurcated world, coming and going, language to language, culture to culture, from childhood to sexuality. A lovely explication of 'dharma things as they are, and how precious they are, no special pleading Anne Waldman."
Caravan To Tibet
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Author : Deepa Agarwal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Caravan To Tibet written by Deepa Agarwal and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Fourteen-year-old Debu sets off across the high mountain passes from Kumaon to Tibet to search for his father who got lost in a blizzard the year before. Adventures follow thick and fast—a forced stay in a monastery with a boy lama who takes a fancy to him, his capture by the cruel, enigmatic bandit Nangbo, who has magical powers, and a stay in the legendary goldfields of Thok Jalong. And finally—a heart-pounding, breathtaking horse race. Does Debu find his father. Does he win the race? Pick up this page-turner to find out!
Back To Tibet
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Author : Thuten Kesang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Back To Tibet written by Thuten Kesang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Tibet Autonomous Region (China) categories.
Sky Train
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Author : Canyon Sam
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Sky Train written by Canyon Sam and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with History categories.
Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the changes wrought by the controversial new rail line in the futuristic "new Lhasa," Sam comes to embrace her own capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance. Her glimpse of Tibet's past through the lens of the women - a visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, and a child bride - affords her a unique perspective on the state of Tibetan culture today - in Tibet, in exile, and in the widening Tibetan diaspora. Gracefully connecting the women's poignant histories to larger cultural, political, and spiritual themes, the author comes full circle, finding wisdom and wholeness even as she acknowledges Tibet's irreversible changes.
Tibet Through The Red Box
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Author : Peter Sís
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Tibet Through The Red Box written by Peter Sís and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A father's diary, an artist's memoir. By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys. While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became interested in the red box again . . . In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. "The Red Box is now yours," it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father's long absence during the 1950s. Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter, and young son, Peter, thinking he would be home for Christmas. Two Christmases would pass before he was heard from again: Vladimir Sis was lost in Tibet. He met with the Dalai Lama; he witnessed China's invasion of Tibet. When he returned to Prague, he dared not talk to his friends about all he had seen and experienced. But over and over again he told Peter about his Tibetan adventures. Weaving their two stories together - that of the father lost in Tibet and that of the small boy in Prague, lost without his father - Sis draws from his father's diary and from his own recollections of his father's incredible tales to reach a spiritual homecoming between father and son. With his sublime pictures, inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art and linking history to memory, Peter Sis gives us an extraordinary book - a work of singular artistry and rare imagination. This title has Common Core connections. Tibet Through the Red Box is a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 1999 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Special Citation.