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Escape from the land of snows : the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero / Stephan Talty. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, 2010. - xv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
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.
9780307460950 : 9780307460950 0307460959 9780307460950
2010019827
Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, 1935- --Childhood and youth.
Escapes--China--Tibet.
Religious leaders--China--Tibet
Buddhism--China--Tibet
Tibet (China)
294.3923092 Tal 8
Escape from the land of snows : the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero / Stephan Talty. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, 2010. - xv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
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.
9780307460950 : 9780307460950 0307460959 9780307460950
2010019827
Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, 1935- --Childhood and youth.
Escapes--China--Tibet.
Religious leaders--China--Tibet
Buddhism--China--Tibet
Tibet (China)
294.3923092 Tal 8