the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero /
Stephan Talty
1st ed
New York :
Crown Publishers,
c2011
xv, 302 p. :
map ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index
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
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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