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Gongboo Sayrung. Tibetan Childhood. Xining: Plateau Publications. 2005.

Austin Barney A Review of Tibetan Childhood Tibetan Childhood is a well-written and engaging book which recounts the childhood memories of Gongboo Sayrung, a native of Kandze TAP, Sichuan. It begins with his birth in 1984 and ends with his acceptance to Kangding Normal School, and was published in 2005 with editorial assistance from Dr. Kevin Stuart. Humorous and … [Read more...]

Namu, with Christine Mathieu. Leaving Mother Lake: A Childhood at the Edge of the World. Abacus, 2005.

(Note:By a Moso woman, a matrilineal people in Yunnan some of whom practice Tibetan Buddhism). Write 4-5pp (1200-1500 words) book review of the book you selected, and post it here using the format that is up there (CCNMTL staff can help with wiki postings if you have any trouble). Please start your paper with a one paragraph (150 word) abstract giving the following … [Read more...]

Shakabpa, Tsoltim N. Winds of Change: An Autobiography of a Tibetan [in verse]. Delhi: Paljor Publications, 2005.

(First published in 2003 as Recollections of a Tibetan, Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2003). Write 4-5pp (1200-1500 words) book review of the book you selected, and post it here using the format that is up there (CCNMTL staff can help with wiki postings if you have any trouble). Please start your paper with a one paragraph (150 word) abstract giving the following … [Read more...]

Konchok Tharchin & Konchok Namgyal; Francesca Merritt, ed. Recollections of Tibet. [s.l.]: [s.n.].

Manuscript held at University of Oxford. Not for selection, (unless you will be in Oxford to read it!). c. 200?. For a review of the two autobiographical sources, see http://www.ladakhstudies.org/resources/Resources/LS20.pdf Write 4-5pp (1200-1500 words) book review of the book you selected, and post it here using the format that is up there (CCNMTL staff can help with wiki … [Read more...]

Belmo. In their Own Words: The True Stories of Nine Buddhist Monks’ Escape from Tibet. Twin Lakes, Wisconsin: Lotus Press, 2006

Write 4-5pp (1200-1500 words) book review of the book you selected, and post it here using the format that is up there (CCNMTL staff can help with wiki postings if you have any trouble). Please start your paper with a one paragraph (150 word) abstract giving the following information: who the books is about, the main figure (include Tibetan spelling of personal names if you can … [Read more...]

Dorjee, Lama Dudjom. Falling Off the Roof of the World: The Autobiography of the Venerable Lama Dudjom Dorjee. PA: Infinity Publishing, 2006.

The Autobiography of the Venerable Lama Dudjom Dorjee Summary Dudjom Dorjee was born to a nomadic family in eastern Tibet in the middle 20th century.[1] He was born near a mountain called Pa-ji-ri. He is the second child in his family. The first boy, however, died at age one or two. His father’s name was Karma Tsultrim, who was a monk when he was young, and later gave … [Read more...]

Soname Yangchen and Vicki Mackenzie. Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname’s Flight to Freedom. London: Portrait, 2006.

Daja Wangchuk Meston, with Clare Ansberry. Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness. New York: Free Press. 2007.

Abstract: Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness is the memoir of Daja Wangchuk Meston (born 1970), a “white Tibetan.” Although he was the son of American parents, Meston was raised by a Tibetan noble family living in exile in Kathmandu, Nepal; by the age of six, he was sent to Kopan Monastery as a novice monk. Against the wishes of his mother (who was herself living in … [Read more...]

Karma-Dondrup, (Kevin Stuart, editorial assistance). Tibetan Nomad Childhood. Xining City: Plateau Publications, 2007. (set in Mangra, Qinghai)

Kondro Tsering. Chronicles of Tibetan Childhood, Kondro Tsering: A Ngawa Tibetan Childhood. Xining: Plateau Publications, 2007.

Abstract Kondro Tsering (mkha’ ‘gro tshe ring), the youngest son of an Amdo Tibetan peasant family, spent his childhood in an isolated farming community in Zorgay (mdzod dge) County, Ngawa (rnga ba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2003, Kondro Tsering was selected to study English at the Qinghai Normal University in Xining, … [Read more...]

Kondro Tsering. Chronicles of Tibetan Childhood, Kondro Tsering: A Ngawa Tibetan Childhood.Xining: Plateau Publications, 2007.

A Zorgay Tibetan Childhood by Kondro Tsering Review by Linnea Westerkam 24 March 2014 ABSTRACT A Zorgay Tibetan Childhood was written by Kondro Tsering. He grew up in a rural village in Amdo and wrote the story of his childhood while studying in an English Training Program at Qinghai Normal University in Xining City starting in 2003. The autobiography was published in 2012. … [Read more...]

Lobsang Wangyal. My Life, My Culture: Autobiography and Lectures on the Relationship between Tibetan Medicine, Buddhist Philosophy and Tibetan Astrology and Astronomy. Translated by Bhuchung D. Sonam and Dhondup Tsering, Dharamsala, India: 2007.

Abstract My Life My Culture is the autobiography of Dr. Lobsang Wangyal. Born in 1920 in Central Tibet, Lobsang Wangyal first entered a local monastery and then the Lhasa Medical School as a teenager. Following the Tibetan uprising of 1959 he was thrown in prison. However, after a period of time his medical training proved useful and he was called upon to treat the sick and … [Read more...]

Tsering Bum. A Northeastern Tibetan Childhood. Xining: Plateau Publications, 2007.

Stacey Van Vleet A Review of A Northeastern Tibetan Childhood Abstract: In A Northeastern Tibetan Childhood, Tsering Bum (Tshe ring ‘bum) gives a very personal account of growing up in a rural village in the Amdo region of Tibet, part of today’s Qinghai province of China. Tibetan culture and its perpetuation emerge as the central concerns of his series of sometimes … [Read more...]

Kleisath, C. Michelle, ed. Heavy Earth, Golden Sky: Tibetan Women Speak About Their Lives. Sherri’s Women’s Group USA, 2008.

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Bilal Choudhry ABSTRACT Heavy Earth, Golden Sky provides a collection of autobiographies of ten women from the Kham and Amdo regions of Tibet. Compiled by C. Michelle Kleisath from students who either were attending or had already graduated from the English Training Program at Qinghai Normal University, these autobiographies give readers a brief look into a series of … [Read more...]

Tubten Khetsun. Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule. Translated by Matthew Akester. New York: Columbia University Press. 2008.

Tubten Khétsun wrote Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule in 1996, in response to an open call by the Dalai Lama for Tibetans to record their personal experiences of life under Chinese occupation. The bulk of the narrative takes place in Lhasa—and nearby prisons, work camps, and farms—between 1959-1976, with brief accounts of both the author's childhood and his eventual … [Read more...]

Tubten Khetsun. Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule. Translated by Matthew Akester. New York: Columbia University Press. 2008.

Review by Zhang Huasha Abstract: This book portrays the prison and ‘reform’ experiences of a young Tibetan from a family of Tibetan government officials during the People's Republic of China (PRC)’s occupation of Tibet after the 1959 uprising. In his book, Tubten Khétsun provides the readers with a vivid account of what the life of a ‘class enemy’ was like from 1959 to the end … [Read more...]

Dilgo Khyentse. Brilliant Moon: The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse. Translated by Ani Jinba Palm. Boston: Shambhala, 2009.

Review by Misha Kaufman December 7, 2009 Book Review of Brilliant Moon: The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse Abstract: Brilliant Moon is the autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse, a reincarnated Tibetan Monk who achieved an extraordinary amount of spiritual success and was revered as a paradigm of the Tibetan faith. Dilgo Khyentse was born in Mahabhota, a part of outer Tibet … [Read more...]

Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche. Memories of Lost and Hidden Lands: The Life Story of Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche. Chime Gatsel Ling, 2009.

Kathog Situ Chokyi Gyatso. Togden Shakya Shri: The Life and Liberation of a Tibetan Yogin. Trans. Elio Guarisco. (Italy: Shangshung Edizioni) 2009.

Xihedao. Xihedao and the Making of a Modern Kaleidescope, 美善唐卡. NP: Central Compilation and Translation Press. C. 2009.

Tsering Woeser. Mémoire Interdite: Témoignages sur la Révolution culturelle au Tibet [Forbidden Memory: Testimony on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet], éd. Bleu de Chine, trad. Li Zhang & Bernard Bourrit. 2010

Sonam Doomtso (索朗东措). A Nomad Girl’s Changing World. Edited by CK Stuart, Asian Highlands Perspectives 19. 2011.

Review by Tony Senatore ABSTRACT A Nomad Girl’s Changing World is the autobiography of Sonam Doomsto (Ch. Suolang Dongcuo). Her story begins with her birth in early winter in the Year of the Rabbit in 1987, and culminates in Sonam receiving her Associate’s Degree from Qinghai Normal University in 2008. It is an inspiring story of how a typical Tibetan girl from a nomadic … [Read more...]

Rdo rje tshe brtan. A Tewo Tibetan Childhood. Xining City: Plateau Publications. 2012. [Asian Highlands Perspectives, Vol. 23, pp. 1-150, 2013]

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...]

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