Download or read book Tibet s Fate written by Warren W. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibet's Fate examines the issue of the political fate of Tibet. It is told by Tibetans themselves as well as by the author from his own experiences. The title is not meant to imply that the current fate of Tibet is an ultimate destiny, or even that Tibet’s fate is already decided. It is only meant in the sense that if Tibet’s fate is now determined, it has been determined not by the Tibetan people but by those of China. If it is to be determined by China, then Tibet’s fate is indeed to be an integral part of China. However, if Tibet’s fate were to be decided by the Tibetan people, if they were allowed their right to national self-determination, then it would definitely be different. Given all the criteria for independent statehood—territory, culture, language, religion and government—Tibet surely should be an independent state. Tibetan territory, defined by altitude, was the very nearly exclusively habitation of people who identified themselves as Tibetans. Those people share a distinct culture, language and religion. They had a central government that directly administered the territory of Central Tibet and indirectly that of Kham and Amdo. Had Tibetans been allowed to determine for themselves their political status; that is, if they had the right to self-determination as specified in the most fundamental documents of international law, there is no doubt that they would have chosen independence. Whatever the flaws of the Tibetan social and political systems, Tibet should have had the right to determine its own fate, and could have done so, until deprived of that right by China. The book also examines the sensitive question of the nature of the Tibetan political system and its role in the fate that has befallen Tibet. The author concludes that the Tibetan political system of Chosi Shungdrel, or the unity of religion and politics, is implicated in the failure of Tibet to maintain its independence.

Download or read book Sky Burial written by Xinran and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002 Xinran’s Good Women of China became an international bestseller, revealing startling new truths about Chinese life to the West. Now she returns with an epic story of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet. Based on a true story, Xinran’s extraordinary second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of the world’s most mysterious and inaccessible countries. In March 1958, Shu Wen learns that her husband, an idealistic army doctor, has died while serving in Tibet. Determined to find out what happened to him, she courageously sets off to join his regiment. But to her horror, instead of finding a Tibetan people happily welcoming their Chinese “liberators” as she expected, she walks into a bloody conflict, with the Chinese subject to terrifying attacks from Tibetan guerrillas. It seems that her husband may have died as a result of this clash of cultures, this disastrous misunderstanding. But before she can know his fate, she is taken hostage and embarks on a life-changing journey through the Tibetan countryside — a journey that will last twenty years and lead her to a deep appreciation of Tibet in all its beauty and brutality. Sadly, when she finally discovers the truth about her husband, she must carry her knowledge back to a China that, in her absence, has experienced the Cultural Revolution and changed beyond recognition. . .

Download or read book Tibet The Lost Frontier written by Claude Arpi and published by Lancer Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving deep into the history of the Roof of the World, this book introduces us to one of the greatest tragedies of modern times, its principal characters as well as the forces impelling them, consciously or unconsciously. The main ‘knot’ of our ‘drama’ was staged in 1950. During this ‘fateful’ year the dice of fate was thrown. There are turning points in history when it is possible for events to go one way or the other — when the tides of time seem poised between the flood and the ebb, when fate awaits our choice to strike its glorious or sombre note, and the destiny of an entire nation hangs in balance. The year 1950 was certainly one such crucial year in the destinies of India, Tibet and China. The three nations had the choice of moving towards peace and collaboration, or tension and confrontation. Decisions can be made with all good intentions — as in the case of Nehru who believed in an ‘eternal friendship’ with China, or with uncharitable motives of Mao. Decisions can be made out of weakness, greed, pragmatism, ignorance or fear; but once an option is excercised, consequences unfold for years and decades to follow. In strategic terms, Tibet is critical to South Asia and South-east Asia. Rather the Tibetan plateau holds the key to the peace, security and well being of Asia, and the world as such. This study of the history of Tibet, a nation sandwiched between two giant neighbours, will enable better understanding of the geopolitics influencing the tumultuous relations between India and China, particularly in the backdrop of border disputes and recent events in Tibet.

Download or read book Sky Burial written by Wang Li Xiong and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tragic Destiny written by George N. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having gone to remote Tibet after receiving a directive from the Lord, George Patterson of Scotland was a young man whose spiritual duty consisted of assisting the Khamba tribesmen of the remote mountain kingdom. After having mastered the language and local customs, the resilient Scotsman had become nearly Tibetan himself - when word came that the Chinese Communists were preparing to invade Patterson's adopted homeland. In desperate need of military aid and international protection, Tibetan leaders asked Patterson to make a perilous winter-time horse ride over the Himalayas into neighbouring India. After having survived this seemingly impossible task, Patterson was halted from returning to Tibet by a host of difficulties and new hazards. One of the most lethal threats came from the enraged Chinese authorities who issued orders to have Patterson liquidated. No one has brought a greater array of facts and first-hand observation to bear on the subject of how Patterson's friends and former hosts, the Khamba tribesmen, were determined to resist the communist invaders. Nor has anyone argued Tibet's case with more passion than this author. Thus Tragic Destiny is an astonishing and readable book which recounts the political fortunes of one of the world's most unfortunate countries.

Download or read book Mipam The Lama of the Five Wisdoms written by Albert Arthur Yongden and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story, drawn from old Tibetan folk tales, has the psychological depth of a western novel. It is a love story woven around the search for the missing reincarnation of a great Lama. Along the way we glimpse a people whose spirituality is as exalted as the Himalayas. There is humor as well, when the hero encounters a bewildering group of Christian missionaries. In the depiction of Chinese culture, and the Chinese merchants of Tibet, there is a foreshadowing of the country's tragic fate.

Download or read book Journey to Tibet s Lost Lama written by Gaby Naher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once-in-a-lifetime experience of personally meeting with the Dalai Lama changed author Gaby Naher's life and started her on a personal pilgrimage to meet Tibet's second most renowned lama, the 17th Karmapa. In "Journey to Tibet's Lost Lama," Naher invites readers to join her journey far into the mountains of Northern India for a meeting with the young spiritual leader who is forced by Sino-Indian politics to live in a deserted monastery as a prisoner in all but name. Along the way, Naher paints a vivid portrait of the multifaceted backdrop to the boy's life by skillfully weaving together the life story of the boy lama, the biographies of the previous 16, and the recent history of Tibet. Full of intrigue, drama, and miracle, the story reads like colorful fiction yet holds the pain and hope of truth.

Download or read book Lost Boy of Tibet written by Kiley Clark and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost Boy of Tibet: The Early Life of Drubwang Tsori Dechen Rinpoche" Lama Tulku was recognized by H.H. the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Yogi Tsoru Dechen Rinpoche, one of the most revered Yogis and Mystics of Tibetan Buddhism. He is considered a "Tulku", a title which is descriptive of certain enlightened beings that are thought to reincarnate in order to continue helping the World. In this life, Tulku''s journey appears like that of the Mythic-Hero who travels far from home to face many trials in order to learn life-lessons needed to become the spiritual leader he was destined to be. Born in 1974 in South India, the first child to a family of Tibetan refugees, young Karma Gyurme is recognized as a spiritual master at age three, and by age seven he is living the monastic life in H.H. Penor Rinpoche''s Namdroling Monastery. A short two years later, at age nine, he hears second-hand that his mother might be on her death-bed in Nepal. The young monk leaves the safety of the monastery to journey alone from South India to Nepal to be by his Mother''s side. But...he never made it. A man with criminal intent, quickly kidnaps him from a crowded bus station, and sells the boy to a wealthy Muslim family. And so, in the land of Buddha''s birth, a little monk goes from Tibetan royalty to slavery in a single night. During these nine years of ''Untouchable'' servitude, he had trained himself to think always, "See, I am just like you. You are Muslim, I am Muslim. You are Hindu, I am Hindu. You hate this...I hate this...you like this, I like this. See, no need to hurt me...we are the same." Yes, he had to become a Chameleon to survive. After years sleeping in a kennel with the family''s dog, one day, the boy was simply traded-off in exchange for a German shepherd puppy. Throughout this long, arduous ordeal, all memory of his divine-nature had been forgotten. Luckily, Fate was not done with him. Already eighteen, while working alongside hundreds of other common laborers in the welding shops of Mumbai, he has a "chance" encounter with an old, mysterious Tibetan man. Hearing his native language again, suddenly the memories of his lost childhood, his Monastery days, and his Tibetan family came flooding back to him. A letter sent to a distant uncle, leads to a daring escape from this terrible life of toil. As a man back from the dead, Rinpoche is finally able to return to the Monastery. (The High-Lamas had already preformed his funeral ceremony years before.) At long last, he is able to complete his monastic studies and mix the sacred Buddhist teachings with his hard-won ''street-smarts'', to become a champion of human rights for all suffering- beings everywhere. Lama Tulku traveled the entire world providing teachings and blessings for all who would seek enlightenment. He was nominated for the CNN Heroes Award for his tireless efforts to support orphans in the poorest of the poor Tibetan refugee camps in India. *On November 1, 2021, this Dharma-Warrior left his body. This book was created to capture his origin story. For it was this difficult childhood that made him the Perfect Teacher that he was. His own challenges created in him a soft heart for all "Mother-Beings". It was his own struggles that compelled him to tirelessly travel the entire globe in order to touch and change the lives of thousands of people. As a child, he had to learn how to survive each day. He eventually learned how to thrive in any situation. Later he would take that knowledge and teach others to boldly rise above all misfortunes and struggles. Rinpoche became a perfect example of a Bodhisattva on this Earth. He left a beautiful example for all of us to follow. If he could go through so much and still have a kind heart...a heart that seeks with every breathe to help others, then so can we. May every reader find Liberation in this very lifetime. OM MANI PADME HUM.

Download or read book A Childhood in Tibet written by Th Hodler and published by Penguin/Viking. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tendöl Namling turned 62 in March 2021. She was born when the Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa and the uprising of his people was brutally suppressed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. She lived for 22 years under Chinese rule. As the daughter of a high-ranking government official, she underwent the ordeal of re-education with full force. All that is left of those years are painful memories and some crumpled photographs. They show her with her friends and cousins in Lhasa, smiling as if nothing had happened. When Tendöl turned 10 her brother was arrested and her mother sentenced to ten years in prison. Tendöl was sent to work in road construction for several years. At the age of 20 she was allowed to start an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic. Thanks to the efforts of her family in exile, Tendöl was able to leave Tibet in 1982. After twenty-two years of hardship, she landed in prosperous Switzerland. It was as though she had to start her life all over again. She struggled, but she never gave up. She built a family and a business and reconciled herself with the painful past."--Dust jacket.

Download or read book Tibet the Sacred Realm written by Lobsang Phuntshok Lhalungpa and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the first European travelers reached Tibet six centuries ago, Westerners have been fascinated and tantalized by tales of that legendary, remote mountain civilization. Today, Tibet 's peaceful , integrated way of life; deeply felt Buddhist tradition; and its culture rich in art, architecture, dance and music have all but disappeared, gradually replaced by the trappings of life introduced since the Chinese take-over of the 1950s. Most of the 3,000 monasteries and temples that once dotted the Tibetan countryside have been destroyed or converted into museums. Only in a few scattered emigre communities, in the treasures hastily smuggled out by 100,000 refugees who fled Tibet in 1959, and in a handful of photographs, is the old Tibet remembered and preserved. Tibet: The Sacred Realm brings together for the first time a selection of more than 140 of these rare photographs, taken from 1880 to 1950 by more than twenty intrepid adventurers, naturalists, explorers, scientists, and missionaries, who were among the very few in the West to travel to Tibet. In this valuable visual record the forward-looking thirteenth Dalai Lama sits in exile in India surrounded by his high officials; one of Tibet's wealthiest families poses in their Western-style dining room; the artificial lake of Lhasa reflects the imposing gilded roofs of the Potala Palace; Buddhist monks perform sacred dances in ornate animal masks; pilgrims circumambulate the holy city; and monks and sheepskin-bundled nomads gather on the vast northern plains to listen for the first time to a visitor's gramophone. Selected from the collections of twenty-three institutions' archives and private sources in Europe and the United States, the photographs represent the finest work of the explorer-photographers Alexandra David-Neel, Brooke Dolan, George Taylor, Ilya Tolstoy, and Claude White, among others, including the Tibetan photographer Sinam Wangfel Laden-La. Facing inclement weather, the threats of bandits, the objections of the lamas, the countless other hardships, these photographers still managed to distill the essence of Tibet's mystery and fascination. Recalling his early years in Tibet, Buddhist scholar, translator, and son of the former chief state oracle of Tibet, Lobsang P. Lhalungpa adds another dimension to the story revealed in the photographs. He shares his recollections of a boyhood in Lhasa, his training under the most revered Tibetan lamas, his life as a monk official in the Dalai Lama's government, and his sorrowful departure from his native land: "I mounted my favorite gelding, which had been saddled with its finest saddle cover. As I bent down to tuck the folds of my clothes under one leg, my round, fur-and-brocade-trimmed hat slipped off my head and fell to the ground. I remember feeling instant apprehension. Was this a sign that I would never see Lhasa again?" As the technological age threatens to swallow, one by one, the unique civilizations of the world, the lessons to be learned from the age-old traditions of Tibet become all the more valuable. Tibet's past, illuminated here by glimpses of special vision, offers profound spiritual insight and a majestic feast for the eye. The photographs are introduced by a preface by his Holiness the Dalai Lama. "Whatever the fate of Tibet, the spiritual essence of the Sacred Realm remains in the hearts of the Tibetan people. Our cultural heritage lives, too, in the handful of photographs taken in our country before 1950, all the more precious because they preserve a sense of time and place that now exists only in our memories."--Lobsang P. Lhalungpa from the Chronicle

Download or read book The Way Of The White Clouds written by Lama Anagarika Govinda and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' New Statesman The Way of the White Clouds is the remarkable narrative of a pilgrimage which could not be made today. Lama Anagarika Govinda was among the last to journey through Tibet before its invasion by the Chinese. His unique account is not only a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, it is also invaluable for its sensitive and clearly presented interpretation of the Tibetan tradition. 'Why is it that the fate of Tibet has found such a deep echo in the world? There can only be one answer: Tibet has become the symbol of all that present-day humanity is longing for' Lama Anagarika Govinda

Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tibet s Last Stand written by Warren W. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a definitive account of the origins and events of the 2008 Tibetan uprising, which began with peaceful demonstrations by monks of Lhasa's great monasteries on the anniversary of the 1959 revolt. Noted expert Warren W. Smith Jr. argues that the uprising was a widespread response to the conditions of Chinese rule over Tibet, which revealed much about Tibetan nationalism and even more about Chinese nationalism. Interpreting the Tibetan uprising as an attempt to spoil the Beijing Olympics, China's hard-line response was repression, "patriotic education," and propaganda blaming the disturbances on the "Dalai clique" and "hostile Western forces." Smith contends that China's offensive is based upon a belief that China now has sufficient economic and political influence to make the world "thoroughly revise its mistaken knowledge" about the Tibet issue. He convincingly shows that far from becoming more lenient in response to Tibetan discontent, China has determined to eradicate Tibetan opposition internally and coerce the international community to conform to China's version of Tibetan history and reality.

Download or read book Tibet Unconquered written by Diane Wolff and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabled country in the far reaches of the Himalayas, Tibet looms large in the popular imagination. The original home of the Dalai Lama, one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, Tibetan Buddhism inspires millions worldwide with the twin values of wisdom and compassion. Yet the Chinese takeover six decades ago also shows another side of Tibet—that of a passionate symbol of freedom in the face of political oppression. International sympathy has kept the Dalai Lama's appeals for autonomy on the world's political agenda, but in light of China's political and economic gains there is fear that Tibet is in danger of being forgotten by the world. As the Dalai Lama grows older, and the Chinese threaten to intervene in the selection of Tibet's next spiritual leader, many wonder if there is any hope for the Tibetan way of life, or if it is doomed to become a casualty of globalization. In Tibet Unconquered East Asia expert Diane Wolff explores the status of Tibet over eight-hundred-years of history. From the Mongol invasion, to the emergence of the Dalai Lama, Wolff investigates the history of political and economic relations between China and Tibet. Looking to the long rule of Chinggis Khan as a model, she argues, that by thinking in regional terms both countries could usher in a new era of prosperity while maintaining their historical and cultural identities. Wolff creates a forward-thinking blueprint for resolving the China and Tibet problem, grounded in the history of the region and the reality of today's political environment that, will guide both countries to peace.

Download or read book The Betrayal of Tradition written by Harry Oldmeadow and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by eminent traditionalists and contemporary thinkers throws into sharp relief many of the urgent problems of today.

Download or read book Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet written by Dan Smyer Yü and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.

Download or read book The Evolvement of Tibet written by 陈志明 and published by Chen, Zhiming. This book was released on 2009 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English introduction and partial translation by Chen Lee Sun.