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Tibet As I Knew It
The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
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2022
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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.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0856-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0857-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
220
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Foreword No access
1: Historical Background No access Pages 1 - 18
2: Family Background No access Pages 19 - 26
3: Early Glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung No access Pages 27 - 56
4: Journey to Lhasa No access Pages 57 - 66
5: Forbidden Bastion or Open City No access Pages 67 - 82
6: Three Years in Lhasa No access Pages 83 - 120
7: The Dalai Lamas and Reincarnation No access Pages 121 - 130
8: Tibetans and Sex No access Pages 131 - 140
9: Lhasa to India No access Pages 141 - 148
10: A Tibetan Schoolboy during the British Raj No access Pages 149 - 158
11: Back Home to Tibet No access Pages 159 - 166
12: Further Metamorphosis and Another Winter in Yatung No access Pages 167 - 178
13: Farewell, Tibet No access Pages 179 - 198
Epilogue I: Return to Tibet in 2007 No access Pages 199 - 204
Epilogue II: Return from Tibet No access Pages 205 - 206
