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The noodle maker of Kalimpong : the Dalai Lama's brother and his struggle for Tibet / Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the 14th Dalai Lama and Anne F. Thurston, coauthor of The Private Life of Chairman Mao.
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- ISBN: 9781610392891 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xxviii, 353 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 951.505092 Rgyal -T | 31681002502946 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the life of the fourteenth Dalai Lama's older brother, who became the center of the Tibetan independence movement following his brother's exile, providing details on their childhood and the political crisis that has brought him face to face with such leaders as Chiang Kai-shek and Jawaharlal Nehru. - Baker & Taylor
The older brother of the Dalai Lama describes his time working as a special envoy, traveling the globe, witnessing some of the most important events of the 20th century as well as helping his brother escape from Lhasa to exile in India. - Grand Central Pub
Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement.
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state.
For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet. - Perseus PublishingShortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement.
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state.
For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet.
