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The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering
This autobiography of a Tibetan nationalist with a burning desire to reform and modernize the "old society" presents for the first time a personal portrait of Tibet that is realistic -- neither a feudal hell, as Beijing would have it, nor Shangrila, as many sympathetic outsiders would have it.
Paperback
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220 pages
Published
October 1st 1999
by East Gate Book
(first published 1997)
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tashi is an incredible man with an incredible story. it was an honor to meet him in october of 2005 during a trip to tibet.
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Tashi Tsering's story is one that more people should know about. Instead of remaining a Tibetan in exile, he deliberately choose to return to China so he could help the under-privileged Tibetans living under Chinese tyranny. His survived prison and years of abuse during and after the Cultural Revolution but eventually made it to Tibet and started schools in rural villages. A great story.
Need to revisit this book. Read for a class in college, but forgot nearly everything in it :(
This is a great book for anyone who truly wants to understand the situation in Tibet. Of course, this is only one man's perspective, but he has seen a lot of the country and met many important people. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because the American collaborators who did the majority of the actual writing made it very boring in style.
Tashi Tsering was a real Tibetan revolutionary with a story worthy of a film adaptation. Upon finishing Goldstein's "Tibetan Revolutionary: The Life and Times of Bapa Phuntsok Wangyal", I've completely hooked on his work irregardless of his obvious pro-China stance on Tibetan issues.
For anyone interested in another view of Tibet/China relations. Not Tibet idealized, but a remarkably compassionate and realistic sensibility from Tashi Tsering, who embodies the very values of Tibetan culture the world seeks to preserve.
An incredible 1st hand account of pre-China theocratic Tibet, the invasion, Chinese occupation and the cultural revolution's toll on Tibet. Highly, highly recommended. Gives a truly different perspective than expected.
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Geshe Tashi Tsering (b.1958) is a resident Buddhist teacher at the Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London (UK).
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