Foreword / Dalai Lama -- Historical background -- Family background -- Early glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, Tibet -- Journey to Lhasa -- Forbidden bastion or open city : a portrait of Lhasa -- Three years in Lhasa -- The Dalai Lama and reincarnation -- Tibetans and sex -- Lhasa to India : a journey to school -- A Tibetan schoolboy during the British Raj : metamorphosis -- Back home to Tibet -- Another metamorphosis and another winter in Yatung -- Farewell Tibet -- Epilogue I: Return to Tibet int 2007 -- Epilogue II: Return from Tibet.
Summary:
"This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author's formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans"-- Provided by publisher.
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