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Surviving the dragon : a Tibetan lama's account of 40 years under Chinese rule
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- Creator
- by Arjia Rinpoche ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- x, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781605297545, 1605297542
- OCLC
- ocn308178618
- Part I: Childhood -- My mother has a prophetic dream -- Raised by a family of 4,000 monks -- Living under the great leap forward -- Following a Tibetan hero -- Part II: Under the dragon's claw -- "Comets in the sky, chaos on Earth" -- Enter the Cultural Revolution -- Removing paper hats -- Part III: On the political stage -- A communist matchmaker meets the Panchen Lama -- The sacred tree and the time machine -- Becoming a political Buddhist -- Part IV: Taking flight -- Stepping into my birthright -- The feast of privilege reveals its price -- Final days with the dragon -- From Kumbum to Kumbum West -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: How Buddhism came to Tibet, and the lineage of the Arjia Rinpoches -- Glossary of terms and names
Subjects
- Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso, 1950-
- Ta er si (Huangzhong Xian, China) -- Biography.
- Reincarnate lamas -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
- Political activists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography.
- Buddhists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Spiritual life.
- Monastic and religious life -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 1951-
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs.