Escape from the Land of Snows
The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero
New York : Crown Publishers, 2010.
Format: Ebook
Related Information: http://myrcpl.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=37B7B2F1-4A29-4D40-97C5-24C00895B082
Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages)
Documents the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured.
Contents:
An examination of prior memories -- To Lhasa -- Across the Ghost River -- Eastern fires -- A rumor -- Foreign brothers -- Across the Kyichu -- Flight -- The Norbulingka -- OpIm -- "Godless Reds vs. a living god" -- The Jokhang -- Lhuntse Dzong -- In Tibetan prisons -- The last border -- Meeting a poet -- Bonfires.
Subjects:
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- -- Childhood and youth.
Escapes -- China -- Xikang Sheng.
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- -- Childhood and youth.
Escapes -- China -- Xikang Sheng.
ISBN:
9780307460974
Availability | |||
---|---|---|---|
Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
Main (Downtown) | In |
Ebook
More Formats
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.
Description based on print version record.