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Escape from the land of snows the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero  Cover Image E-book E-book

Escape from the land of snows the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero

Talty, Stephan. (Author).

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 leader endured.

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  • ISBN: 9780307460974 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307460975 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xv, 302 p.)
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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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Description based on print version record.
Subject: Bstan-�dzin-rgya-mtsho -- Dalai Lama XIV -- 1935- -- Childhood and youth
Escapes -- China -- Xikang Sheng
Genre: EBOOK.
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