Tibet as I Knew It - The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author's formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Dalai Lama
Chapter 1: Historical Background
Chapter 2: Family Background
Chapter 3: Early Glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, Tibet
Chapter 4: Journey to Lhasa
Chapter 5: Forbidden Baston or Open City: A Portrait of Lhasa
Chapter 6: Three Years in Lhasa
Chapter 7: The Dalai Lama and Reincarnation
Chapter 8: Tibetans and Sex
Chapter 9: Lhasa to India: A Journey to School
Chapter 10: A Tibetan Schoolboy During the British Raj: Metamorphosis
Chapter 11: Back Home to Tibet
Chapter 12: Another Metamorphosis and Another Winter in Yatung
Chapter 13: Farewell Tibet
Epilogue I: Return to Tibet in 2007
Epilogue II: Return from Tibet
Bibliography
About the Author

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tsewang Yishey Pemba was born on June 5, 1932 in Gyantse, Tibet. He is the author of Young Days in Tibet (1957), Idols on the Path (1966), and White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings (2017).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tsewang Yishey Pemba
• Mitarbeit: The Dalai Lama (Vorwort)
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.11.2022
• EAN: 9781666908565
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-0856-5
• Seiten: 228
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 236 mm x 19 mm
• Gewicht: 485 g
• Illustration: 17 b/w photos
• Serie: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; China, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity