عنوان

A life unforeseen :

(Number (ISBN

1614292418

(Number (ISBN

9781614292418

Erroneous ISBN

161429223X

Erroneous ISBN

9781614292234

Title Proper

A life unforeseen :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a memoir of service to Tibet /

First Statement of Responsibility

Rinchen Sadutshang ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Somerville, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Wisdom Publications, Inc.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2016]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

One of the only government officials in pre-Communist Tibet to have been educated in English recounts the pivotal events that changed his homeland, and the fate of his people, forever. Rinchen Sadutshang was born in 1928 near the Tibet-China border to a well-off trading family, educated in a Jesuit school in the Himalayan foothills of British India, and served in the Dalai Lama's government both before and after the 1959 Communist takeover of Lhasa. A refugee alongside tens of thousands of his countrymen, he played a crucial role in bringing the plight of the Tibetan people to the world's attention. In this memoir, published just months after his passing in July of 2015, the author recounts his long, fascinating career in service to the Tibetan cause. From meeting British viceroy Lord Waverly in India and General Chiang Kai-shek in China in 1946 to being part of the delegation that successfully pled Tibet's case before the United Nations in the 1960s, he offers a first-hand perspective on a number of memorable historical events.

Title

Life unforeseen

International Standard Book Number

161429223X

Parallel Title

Memoir of service to Tibet

Rinchen Sadhutshang,1928 or 1929-2015.

Rinchen Sadhutshang,1928 or 1929-2015.

Central Tibetan Administration-in-Exile (India)-- Officials and employees

Central Tibetan Administration-in-Exile (India)

Politicians-- China-- Tibet Autonomous Region, Biography.

Refugees, Tibetan-- India, Biography.

Tibetans-- India, Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

Employees.

HISTORY-- Asia-- China.

Politicians.

Politics and government.

Refugees, Tibetan.

Tibetans.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China), Biography.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China), Politics and government, 1951-

China, Tibet Autonomous Region.

India.

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7

BIO-- 006000

HIS-- 008000

Number

Edition

Class number

Rinchen Sadhutshang,1928 or 1929-2015

Date of Transaction

20200823050251.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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