Title: Escape from the land of snows : the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero /
Authors: Talty, Stephan.
Publisher: Crown Publishers,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Childhood and youth.; Escapes China Tibet Autonomous Region.
Abstract: Documents the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured.
Contents: An examination of prior memories -- To Lhasa -- Across the Ghost River -- Eastern fires -- A rumor -- Foreign brothers -- Across the Kyichu -- Flight -- The Norbulingka -- OpIm -- "Godless Reds vs. a living god" -- The Jokhang -- Lhuntse Dzong -- In Tibetan prisons -- The last border -- Meeting a poet -- Bonfires.