A hundred thousand white stones
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Kunsang Dolma with Evan Denno
Contributors: Denno, Evan
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781614290711; 9781614290902
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Biography; Family; Family relationships; Intercountry marriage; Tibetan Americans; Refugees; Buddhist nuns
Description: A Hundred Thousand White Stones is the fearlessly told, unvarnished story of life as a Tibetan woman and refugee. Kunsang Dolma writes from her heart of the hardship and struggle she experienced as a girl in Tibet, as a woman in India, and as an immigrant refugee in America. Yet despite the many moments of sadness her story contains, she manages to find hope and levity in her memory of even the worst of circumstances. A Hundred Thousand White Stones offers an honest, first-person assessment of what is gained in pursuing life in the developed world, and what is lost.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The invasion; title: My parents; title: Fresh-air childhood; title: A blessing from the Panchen Lama; title: A little education; title: Life in the village; title: Tibetan cooking; title: Losar; title: My father's drinking; title: A tragic turning point; title: How I became a nun; title: The meditation retreat and the bad news; title: A tough year; title: Preparing for India; title: Escape; title: Welcome to Nepal; title: My first taste of freedom; title: Dharamsala at last; title: Life on my own; title: Fiasco at the disco; title: Evan returns to America; title: The worst thing I've ever done; title: My fiancée visa is denied; title: Evan returns; title: A final push; title: A new life; title: Disappointment with my new life; title: Tenzin Yangchen; title: Tenzin Yangzom; title: My struggle to return to Tibet; title: Reunited with my family.