Tag: book
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Review: “Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet”
Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet (Lowell Thomas, Jr.) In 1949, the government of Tibet gave permission to Lowell Thomas, the broadcaster who made Lawrence of Arabia famous, and his son, the author of this book, to travel to Lhasa. Lhasa, the holiest city in all of Tibet, was off-limits to…
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Review: “Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History”
Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History (Canyon Sam) Tibet is the “roof of the world” that teeters dangerously close to falling off the global map, despite the protests of March 2008, the 50th anniversary of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s escape into India, and the “splittist” activities all throughout China that…
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Review: “Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate”
“‘It’s better if the Dalai Lama doesn’t come back. Now he is working for Tibet’s independence, and he can only do this abroad. Here he would be put away in a monastery somewhere. It could even be dangerous…. I think that the situation in Tibet won’t change until China changes. As soon as they become…
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