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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
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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

Author: Stephan Talty
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2010.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Biography : English : 1st ed
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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.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Talty, Stephan.
Escape from the land of snows.
New York : Crown Publishers, 2010
(DLC) 2010019827
(OCoLC)515405213
Named Person: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV
Material Type: Biography, Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Stephan Talty
ISBN: 9780307460974 0307460975
OCLC Number: 703283198
Description: 1 online resource (xv, 302 p.)
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.
Responsibility: Stephan Talty.

Abstract:

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.

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