Review of A Tewo Tibetan Childhood Harrison Vincent Abstract: A Tewo Tibetan Childhood is an autobiographical recounting of Dorjé Tsetan’s (Rdo rje tshe brtan) aberrant Tibetan childhood in Têwo County, Amdo, China. His story begins with his birth in 1988 and culminates upon receiving his M.A. Degree in Anthropology from Silliman University in the Philippines in 2010. It … [Read more...]
Tshes bcu lha mo. Mushroom Ghosts, Belligerent Yaks, and Cranberry Cocktails: A Brag ‘go Woman’s Early Life. Xining City: Plateau Publications. 2012.
Tshes bcu lha mo. Mushroom Ghosts, Belligerent Yaks, and Cranberry Cocktails: A Brag 'go Woman's Early Life. Xining City: Plateau Publications. 2012. http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Volume+Twenty-Nine Reviewed by Tsechu Dolma Tsechu Lhamo’s inspiring story is a twenty first century book on how hard work and education can change the lives of the underprivileged … [Read more...]
Sadutshang, Tseyang. My Youth in Tibet: Recollections of a Tibetan Woman. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 2012.
Emily Daly Abstract Tseyang Sadutshang’s My Youth in Tibet is both an autobiography of the author and a biography of her uncle, Reting Rinpoche. The author’s story, as told to Yangdol Tsatultsang, was published in 2012 and presents these two different but interconnected narratives, making the work about both individuals if not placing greater emphasis on her … [Read more...]
Keyzom, Tsering & Zevon, Sanford S. My Journey to Freedom: One Girl’s Survival Story. Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.
Sofia Riva Abstract My Journey to Freedom is the autobiography of Tsering Keyzom. Her story recounted through conversation sessions with Dr. Sanford S. Zevon at a local community college, begins in Amdo, a nomadic village in Tibet where she lived with her family, and ends in Westchester, New York way of Kathmandu, New Dehli, and Dharamsala. The language is simple and … [Read more...]
Nulo, Naktsang. My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Abstract Born in a small village named Madey Chukama in Golok, Amdo region, Naktsang Nulo’s autobiography mainly records the story of his childhood. A cutting line in his life was PLA’s occupation. He witnessed Tibetan monks being forced to smash their monasteries and lamas being beaten to death by the locals. His father tried to have them escape but he died in a battle … [Read more...]
Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong. New York: Public Affairs, 2015.
== Gyalo Thondup, older brother of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, erstwhile CIA collaborator, and longtime exile-government liaison to China, wrote The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong (with coauthor Anne Thurston) in 2015. An autobiographical account of Tibet’s ongoing struggle for independence, Noodle Maker primarily centers on the author’s political life, from 1945-1999, but also … [Read more...]
Sadutshang, Rinchen. A Life Unforeseen: A Memoir of Service to Tibet. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2016.
Kesang Lama Abstract Rinchen Sadutshang was born (1928-2015) in Lingtsang village, Karze town of Trehor valley in Kham. His journey to Lhasa and life thereafter unfolds in 1934 at the age of five and covers key moments for him till 2006; from early childhood in Kham to Lhasa, Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, China, US, Japan, Thailand, Bhutan. The … [Read more...]
Rinpoche, Trijang. The Magical Play of Illusion: The Autobiography of Trijang Rinpoche. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2018.
Jeffrey Daniel Torborg Abstract Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche’s The Magical Play of Illusion: The Autobiography of Trijang Rinpoche (2018) recounts his life from the year of his birth in 1901 until 1975, six years before his death in 1981. A student and then monk at Ganden Monastery in Lhasa, Trijang Rinpoche describes his early training in verse, composition, memorization, … [Read more...]
Losal Rinpoche, Yeshe. From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey. Penguin Life, 2021.
Hiroki Sato ABSTRACT: Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche (Jampal Drakpa) was born in Darak, Kham in 1943. He is the Abbot of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, as well as the director of the Holy Island Project in Scotland. His autobiography covers the twist and turns of his life, such as the Chinese invasion and his escape from Tibet, exile in India, purposeless life in … [Read more...]
Tsarong, Paljor. The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920–1970: A Lord of the Traditional Tibetan State. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920-1970 Written by Paljor Tsarong (2022). Abstract Paljor Tsarong’s book “The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920-1970” is a very recent addition to the writings on the history of twentieth century Tibet. The author portrays to us a detailed biographical account of his father Dundul Namgyal Tsarong (wylie: bdud … [Read more...]