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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 New York : Crown Publishers, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Description xv, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.


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 EI-Adult Collection  294.3923 TAL Nearby on shelf  30626002164693 07-29-11  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibligraphical references (pages 265-286) 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 -- OpIm -- "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 leader endured.
Subject Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- -- Childhood and youth.
Escapes -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Other title Young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero.
ISBN 9780307460950