Coming home to Tibet
Subtitle: a memoir of love, loss, and belonging
By: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Contributors: Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo
Edition: First Shambhala edition.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781611803297
Subjects: Social life and customs; Death; Place attachment; Description and travel; Family; Mothers; Travel; Psychological aspects; Mothers and daughters; Home; Biography
Description: When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her, especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her: the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter's haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge, it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands, and the dreams of daughters.
Notes: "First published in Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India, 2013"--Title page verso.

Originally published under title: A home in Tibet.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: 1. The Abode of Snow; title: 2. The Wild East; title: 3. Town of Nine Lives; title: 4. Born in Exile; title: 5. Histories of Self; title: 6. How to Find a King; title: 7. Home on a Throne; title: 8. Phayul; title: 9. Insider; title: 10. Mother; title: 11. A Woman's World; title: 12. Miracles of the West; title: 13. Faith; title: 14. Song of Suffering; title: 15. Two of Us; title: 16. Free Tibet; title: 17. Maladies of the Self; title: 18. Imagined Country; title: 19. I Will Carry the Sky; title: 20. Portrait of a Lama; title: 21. Lost; title: 22. How a Wolf Killed a Lion; title: 23. Month of Sin; title: 24. The Business of Dogs; title: 25. How to Say Goodbye; title: 26. Love; title: 27. May the Gods Be Victorious; title: Epilogue.