My Tibetan childhood
Subtitle: when ice shattered stone
By: Naktsang Nulo ; translation provided by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo ; edited and abridged by Angus Cargill ; with a foreword by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, a foreword by Ralph Litzinger, and an introduction by Robert Barnett
Contributors: Cargill, Angus
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780822357124; 9780822357261
Subjects: Children; Biography; History
Description: Chronicles life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s, as seen through the eyes fo a child.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: the charnel ground; title: Born on the wide Tibetan grasslands; title: A childhood with herdsmen, bandits, and monks; title: By yak caravan to the holy city of Lhasa; title: Witness to massacre on our tragic journey through desolate places; title: Torture and imprisonment, starvation and survival; title: Appendix: guide to abridgment and chapter changes from original.