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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: 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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