Prelude: the charnel ground -- Born on the wide Tibetan grasslands -- A childhood with herdsmen, bandits, and monks -- By yak caravan to the holy city of Lhasa -- Witness to massacre on our tragic journey through desolate places -- Torture and imprisonment, starvation and surviv…
Prelude: the charnel ground -- Born on the wide Tibetan grasslands -- A childhood with herdsmen, bandits, and monks -- By yak caravan to the holy city of Lhasa -- Witness to massacre on our tragic journey through desolate places -- Torture and imprisonment, starvation and surviv…
My Tibetan childhood: when ice shattered stone
by Cargill, Angus, Naktsang Nulo, Sonam Lhamo
A bestseller in Tibet until it was banned by China, this moving memoir chronicles Naktsang Nulo's childhood in Tibet's Amdo region during the uprising against the Chinese invasion of the 1950s.
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 e…