Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his father´s diaries and his conversations with Tibetan and British officials as well as people at the grassroots. His own metamorphosis, as he leaves Tibet in 1949 for higher education abroad, foreshadows the metamorphosis of Tibet and its inescapable fate in the decade that followed.
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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.
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Foreword, Dalai LamaChapter 1: Historical BackgroundChapter 2: Family BackgroundChapter 3: Early Glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, TibetChapter 4: Journey to LhasaChapter 5: Forbidden Baston or Open City: A Portrait of Lhasa Chapter 6: Three Years in LhasaChapter 7: The Dalai Lama and ReincarnationChapter 8: Tibetans and SexChapter 9: Lhasa to India: A Journey to SchoolChapter 10: A Tibetan Schoolboy During the British Raj: MetamorphosisChapter 11: Back Home to TibetChapter 12: Another Metamorphosis and Another Winter in YatungChapter 13: Farewell TibetEpilogue I: Return to Tibet in 2007Epilogue II: Return from Tibet BibliographyAbout the Author
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781666908565
Publisert
2022-11-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Vekt
485 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
228

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Om bidragsyterne

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).