Tibet as I Knew It

The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Tsewang Yishey Pemba

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-02-05
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Modern Tibetan Culture
Antal sidor228
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareLama,TheDalai
ISBN9781666908589

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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

"Found by chance after the author’s passing, Tibet as I Knew It is an account of 'multiple metamorphoses,' as Dr. Pemba himself calls them: The changes taking place in Tibet before the mid-twentieth century, the upheavals of the last decade of British presence in India, as well as the personal transformations of a young Tsewang Pemba who when left Tibet to study abroad had no idea he would never get to see again neither Tibet as an independent country nor his parents. Honest, authentic, enthralling, and narrated by one of the early Tibetan immigrants in India in the early twentieth century, Tibet as I Knew It is an indispensable reading for anybody concerned with Tibet."