My Tibetan Childhood

Nulo Naktsang Nulo, Cargill Angus Cargill, Lhamo Sonam Lhamo

Description

In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from advancing Chinese troops. Naktsang's father joined and was killed in the little-known 1958 Amdo rebellion against the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the armed branch of the Chinese Communist Party. During the next year, the author and his brother were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children survived.The real significance of this episodic narrative is the way it shows, through the eyes of a child, the suppressed histories of China's invasion of Tibet. The author's matter-of-fact accounts cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived to tell his tale. His book was published in 2007 in China, where it was a bestseller before the Chinese government banned it in 2010. It is the most reprinted modern Tibetan literary work. This translation makes a fascinating if painful period of modern Tibetan history accessible in English.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Tíbet
• Memoir
• Tibet

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 05 novembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822376385
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

My Tibetan Childhood

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library of congress cataloginginpublication data Naktsang Nulo. My Tibetan childhood : when ice shattered stone / Naktsang Nulo; translation provided by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo; edited and abridged by Angus Cargill ; with a foreword by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, a foreword by Ralph Litzinger, and an introduction by Robert Barnett pages cm Includes index. isbn9780822357124 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn9780822357261 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Naktsang Nulo. 2. Children—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—Biography. 3. Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—History—1951–i. Cargill, Angus.ii. Title. ds786.n951'.5055092—dc23 [327 2014 b] 2014009913

on the cover:The author and his brother in Chinese clothing at their first government school. Courtesy of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.

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foreword  à zé x

introduction A Nôé ô Çôéx à Śïçàçé  ôé àé x

translators’ note 

author’s preface 1

prelude é Çàé Gôû 9

one ô ô é wé éà Gàŝŝàŝ 1

two A Çôô  Héŝé, àŝ, à môŝ 49

three  Yà Çààà ô é Hô Ç ô àŝà 1

four wéŝŝ ô màŝŝàçé ô Oû àç Jôûé ôû éŝôàé àçéŝ 11

five ôûé à ŝôé, Śààô à Śûà 1

appendix Gûé ô Aé à Çàé Çàéŝ ô Oà 269

glossary 21

index 2

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The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

my Tîbéà chîldhoodŝ é àûôôà ô à ôû éà à  éŝçéŝ é ûà ééŝŝô ô é  Çéŝé ôçéŝ  é 1950ŝ. é àû- ô éŝôà éŝŝé é ééŝ é éŝçéŝ  ŝ ôô, à é éçôŝ é çôç à ŝàôà. ôà, ô à é éé éôé éà ô çà éçôû éŝé ŝà ééŝ ô éŝôà éxééçé. Çà éçôéçôŝ ŝûç àŝ éŝé àé ô éà àûé ô ô ô é ééàôŝ ô éàŝ ô à ô ûéŝà é éçé ŝô ô é ô éôé û àŝô ô éàéŝ àôà ô àé ééŝé  à àçûà àéé  é. ŝ ôô, ôà é  éà, àŝ éàé àŝàé ô Ç- éŝé. Nô,  àŝ éé àŝàé ô Eŝ. éàéŝ ô ô Çéŝé à Eŝ ô àé àéà àà  à ôô àçé  é àé 1950  éçôzé à ŝ éŝçé éé; ô ôéŝ  à é à ééàô. Eé à,  à ŝûé é çàô ô éŝé éçôéçôŝ  çôçé éàéŝ ô é jûŝçé ô é çàûŝé ô é à éà é ô é ûŝ é ŝûô.