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

40,000 Years of Gratitude

For an enlightening Thanksgiving exercise, ask those celebrating with you for the one word that spontaneously comes to mind when thinking of the holiday. You are likely to hear responses as varied as turkey, family, traffic, Pilgrims, pie, laughter, cranberries, and love. My own word is the “past”. It is really my shorthand way of … Continue reading

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40,000 Years of Gratitude