The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920-1970

Paljor Tsarong

doi:10.5771/9781793641786

Summary

Centuries have passed since the demise of many precapitalist agricultural states. Despite the British invasion of 1903 and the Chinese invasion in 1950, the Tibetan state continued to fully function until 1959. For this reason, this biography of George Tsarong not only provides new and in-depth perspectives on the life of an official of the Tibetan state, but it will also contribute to the comparative study of precapitalist states. This book weaves together history and biography to narrate the life of an aristocratic state official, his education and social life, his registration and entrance into a civil service career. It also describes the various personal and state political intrigues he was involved in and the many grand ceremonies that dominated the life of a state official. George Tsarong’s story is also the story of the fall of this traditional state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation, resistance, and exile.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4177-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4178-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 454
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Maps No access
1. Dasang Damdul and the Dalai Lama No access
2. George Tsarong: The Early Years No access
3. Notes No access
1. Kalimpong and Calcutta No access
2. Bodhgaya to Kathmandu No access
3. The Return No access
4. New Tsarong House No access
5. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Under the Shadows of the Power Struggle No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Search for the Fourteenth Dalai Lama No access
2. The Grand Reception No access
3. Tropical Hospital, Calcutta No access
4. Return to Lhasa No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Traditional Tibetan State No access
2. Entrance into State Service No access
3. At the Cabinet Office No access
4. Notes No access
Chapter 7: The Great Song and the Ode to the Arrow No access Pages 119 - 128
1. Tse Gutor: Preparing for the New Year No access
2. The First Day of the New Year No access
3. The Second Day of the New Year No access
4. The Third Day of the New Year No access
5. Monlam: The Great Prayer Festival No access
6. Tsonchö Prayers No access
7. Gyètor: The Ritual in the Third Month No access
8. Sakadawa No access
9. Chibgyur: The Grand Processions No access
10. Trunglha Yarsö No access
11. Zamling Chisang No access
12. Drukpa Tséshi: Fourth Day of the Sixth Month No access
13. Shotön No access
14. Chabshuk No access
15. Lhabhab Dhüchen No access
16. Pèlèh Retrö No access
17. Ganden Ngamchö No access
18. Last Ceremonies of the Year No access
19. Notes No access
1. Prelude to the Fall No access
2. The Resignation No access
3. The New Taktra Regent No access
4. Attempts to Reclaim the Regency No access
5. The Lhundup Dzong Incident: Fanning the Flames No access
6. The Arrest of the Ex-Regent Reting No access
7. Closure and Arrests at Lhasa’s Reting Labrang No access
8. Unrest at Sera Monastery and Lhasa No access
9. Prisoner in the Potala Palace No access
10. The Suppression of Sera Monastery No access
11. The Investigations and the Death of Regent Reting No access
12. The Revolt at Reting Monastery No access
13. The Suppression of the Revolt No access
14. The Opening of Reting Monastery No access
15. Notes No access
1. The Drabchi Department No access
2. Hydroelectric Power Stations No access
3. Notes No access
1. Leaving for India No access
2. After the Fall of the Eastern Frontier No access
3. The Interlude in India No access
4. Shangdhab Hydroelectrical Work Resumes No access
5. The Reluctant Agreement in Beijing No access
6. At Kalimpong: The Summer of 1951 No access
7. The Return to Lhasa No access
8. India: The Winter of 1952 No access
9. Lhasa 1953: Sinking Ever Deeper No access
10. To India and Back No access
11. At Chamdo: Receiving the Dalai Lama No access
12. The Return to Lhasa No access
13. Notes No access
1. Return to Tibet No access
2. The PCART: Old Wine in New Wine Skins No access
3. Pilgrimage: A Respite in India No access
4. The Return No access
5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place No access
6. The Final Exit No access
7. Notes No access
1. Bodhgaya and Kathmandu No access
2. Kalimpong and Darjeeling No access
3. Grandfather’s Return to Tibet No access
4. Fall and Winter 1958 No access
5. Spring 1959 No access
6. Notes No access
1. Gold and Silver: Transport, Sale, and Use No access
2. Search for Investments No access
3. The Dalai Lama’s Charitable Trust No access
4. Gayday Iron and Steel Company No access
5. Resignation: The Final Year No access
6. Notes No access
Appendix A No access Pages 393 - 422
Glossary of Key Terms No access Pages 423 - 426
References No access Pages 427 - 430
Index No access Pages 431 - 452
About the Author No access Pages 453 - 454