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  • Forbidden Memory

    Tibet during the Cultural Revolution

    by Tsering Woeser ...
    Translated by Susan T. Chen ...
    When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ocean, as Much as Rain

    Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

    by Tsering Woeser ...
    Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Dechen Pemba ...
    Ocean, as Much as Rain presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of masterfully translated literary writings by prominent Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser. In these stories, lyrical essays, and poetry, Woeser interweaves texts, photographs, silences, and documentary details. Featuring a distinctively imaginative use of satire and digressive rhetoric, Woeser’s stories ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Forbidden Memory

    Tibet during the Cultural Revolution

    by Tsering Woeser ...
    Translated by Susan T. Chen ...
    Access the glossary of Tibetan terms.Access the glossary of Chinese and English terms.<a href="https://nebraska-press.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/11155709/Woeser_Fo... ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Tibet on Fire

    Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule

    by Tsering Woeser ...
    Translated by Kevin Carrico ...
    Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fireSince the 2008 uprising, nearly 150 Tibetan monks have set fire to themselves in protest at the Chinese occupation of their country. Most have died from their injuries. Author Tsering Woeser is a prominent voice of the Tibetan movement, and one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese. Her stirring acts of resistance have led to her house ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy."In this ... Read more

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  • Eat the Buddha

    Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

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    A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Economist • Ou... ... Read more

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  • My Spiritual Journey

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  • The Story of Tibet

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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

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    The remarkable true story of the miraculous journey that made the Dalai Lama into the man he is today and sparked the fight for Tibetan freedom“A hair-raising tale of daring and escape.”—The Washington PostIn the early weeks of 1959, a bloody uprising gripped the streets of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as ragtag Tibetan rebels faced off against their Communist Chinese occupiers. Realizing that the ... Read more

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  • Fire Under The Snow

    by Palden Gyatso ...
    In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life and irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of the Chinese. ... Read more

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  • Why the Dalai Lama Matters

    His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World

    by Robert Thurman ...
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an extraordinary example of a life dedicated to peace, communication, and unity. What he represents, and what he has accomplished, heals and transcends the current tensions between Tibet and China. Why the Dalai Lama Matters explores just why he has earned the world's love and respect, and how restoring Tibet's autonomy within China is not only possible, but highly ... Read more

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