Tibet as I knew it : the memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba /

Tibet as I knew it : the memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pemba, Tsewang Y., author.
Imprint:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Description:	vi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in modern Tibetan culture Studies in modern Tibetan culture.
Subject:	Pemba, Tsewang Y. Physicians -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Biography. Authors, Tibetan -- Biography. Authors, Tibetan. Manners and customs. Physicians. Travel. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel. China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13523955

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
Other authors / contributors:	Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9781666908565 1666908568 9781666908572
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author's formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans"--
Other form:	Online version: Pemba, Tsewang Y. Tibet as I knew it Lanham : Lexington Books, 2023 9781666908572

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Dalai Lama
Historical background
Family background
Early glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, Tibet
Journey to Lhasa
Forbidden bastion or open city : a portrait of Lhasa
Three years in Lhasa
The Dalai Lama and reincarnation
Tibetans and sex
Lhasa to India : a journey to school
A Tibetan schoolboy during the British Raj : metamorphosis
Back home to Tibet
Another metamorphosis and another winter in Yatung
Farewell Tibet
Epilogue I: Return to Tibet int 2007
Epilogue II: Return from Tibet.