Buddha's warriors : the story of the CIA-backed Tibetan freedom fighters, the Chinese invasion, and the ultimate fall of Tibet

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Dunham, Mikel

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"In the last sixty years, Tibet has been so mythologized and politicized that the outside world remains confused about what really happened when Mao Tse-tung invaded in 1950. Far from being a popul...

"In the last sixty years, Tibet has been so mythologized and politicized that the outside world remains confused about what really happened when Mao Tse-tung invaded in 1950. Far from being a popular and peaceful occupation, as Beijing propaganda would insist, the Chinese presence in Tibet evoked anger among the people who suddenly found themselves under the thumb of a communist regime. Tibetans rose up in arms to protect their families, homes, culture, and, above all, their religion, headed by the Dalai Lama." "Buddha's Warriors is the story of those tens of thousands of Tibetans who violently resisted the bloody occupation of their country and the desecration of all that was holy to them. Tibet's only source of outside help came clandestinely from the United States. A small group of CIA agents secretly trained and armed the freedom fighters, hoping to increase Tibet's chance of thwarting the Chinese." "Author Mikel Dunham spent seven years interviewing the warriors who fought the Chinese, collecting stories that otherwise would have been lost to history. He also befriended the CIA officers who trained the young Tibetans and who subsequently grew to love the Buddhist soldiers as brothers. These firsthand accounts bring faces and deeply personal emotions to the forefront of the ongoing tragedy of Tibet."--BOOK JACKET.

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