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Title:

Escape from the Land of Snows : the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero / Stephan Talty.

Publisher:

Broadway Books,

Copyright Date:

2012, c2011

Description:

302 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Bstan-ʼzin-rgya-mtsho,--Dalai Lama XIV,--1935---Childhood and youth.
Escapes--Tibet Autonomous Region.--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Other Authors:

Talty, Stephan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.

Contents:

An examination of prior memories -- To Lhasa -- Across the Ghost River -- Eastern fires -- A rumor -- Foreign brothers -- Across the Kyichu -- Flight -- The Norbulingka -- Oplm -- "Godless Reds vs. a living God" -- The Jokhang -- Lhuntse Dzong -- In Tibetan prisons -- The last border -- Meeting a poet -- Bonfires.

Summary:

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 leaders endured.

ISBN:

0307460967
9780307460967

OCLC:

(OCoLC)727702787

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)