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Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso, 1950-
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Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso, 1950-
Ta er si (Huangzhong Xian, China) -- Biography.
Reincarnate lamas -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Political activists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Buddhists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Spiritual life.
Monastic and religious life -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs.
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Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso, 1950-
Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso, 1950-
Ta er si (Huangzhong Xian, China) -- Biography.
Reincarnate lamas -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Political activists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Buddhists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Spiritual life.
Monastic and religious life -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs.
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Surviving the dragon : a Tibetan lama's account of 40 years under Chinese rule / by Arjia Rinpoche ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
by
Lobsang
Tubten
Jigme
Gyatso
,
1950-
Rodale ; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2010.
Call #:
294.3923 L799s
Subjects
Lobsang
Tubten
Jigme
Gyatso
,
1950-
Ta er si (Huangzhong Xian, China) -- Biography.
Reincarnate lamas -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Political activists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
Buddhists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Spiritual life.
Monastic and religious life -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs.
ISBN:
1605297542 :
9781605297545
Description:
x, 262 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Part I: Childhood -- My mother has a prophetic dream -- Raised by a family of 4,000 monks -- Living under the great leap forward -- Following a Tibetan hero -- Part II: Under the dragon's claw -- "Comets in the sky, chaos on Earth" -- Enter the Cultural Revolution -- Removing paper hats -- Part III: On the political stage -- A communist matchmaker meets the Panchen Lama -- The sacred tree and the time machine -- Becoming a political Buddhist -- Part IV: Taking flight -- Stepping into my birthright -- Thefeast of privilege reveals its price -- Final days with the dragon -- From Kumbum to Kumbum West -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: How Buddhism came to Tibet, and the lineage of the Arjia Rinpoches -- Glossary of terms and names.
Summary:
A forefront Buddhist leader describes his witness to the torture and arrest of his family and teachers by Chinese authorities, his suffering at the sides of fellow monks under occupier "reeducation" practices, and his eventual escape to Tibet.
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Autobiographies.
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