More On Tibet

To learn more about the Tibetan experience …

Invaluable overviews are provided in John Avedon’s In Exile from the Land of the Snows and Tsering Shakya’s The Dragon in the Land of Snows.

The following first hand accounts, often poignant and always informative, relate the personal experience of Tibetans during and after the Chinese conquest:

A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands, by David Patt
In the Presence of My Enemies, by Sumner Carnahan
Sorrow Mountain, by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelly
Sky Burial, by Blake Kerr
Warriors of Tibet, by Jamyang Norbu
A Season to Purge, published by the International Campaign for Tibet
Tears of Blood, A Cry for Tibet, by Mary Craig
The Voice that Remembers, by Adha Tapontsand and Joy Blakeslee

Happy Thanksgiving

We often hear that Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, inspired by the Pilgrims and formally enacted by Abraham Lincoln, but I have never thought of it in national terms. Harvest festivals have been celebrated for centuries, probably millennia. This is the tradition that I think of when the turkey is served, a celebration of … Continue reading

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