Noodle maker of Kalimpong : the Dalai Lama's brother and his struggle for Tibet / Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the fourteenth Dalai Lama and Anne F. Thurston, coauthor of The Private Life of Chairman Mao.

By:

THother, Gyalo

Contributor(s):

Thurston, Anne F

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 353 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781610392891 (hardcover)

Other title:

Dalai Lama's brother and his struggle for Tibet

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

951.505092 23 THO

LOC classification:

DS785 .R44 2015

Summary: Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331) and index.

Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement.

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state.

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