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From a mountain in Tibet : a monk's journey

Losal, Yeshe, Lama, 1943-2023
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Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was 15 years old. In his quiet village, he and other children ran in fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. Food was carefully apportioned and eaten together, everyone was family. The arrival of Chinese army cars one day in 1959 changed everything. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising, he escaped to India through the Himalayas to start over as a refugee. One of only 13 survivors out of 300 travellers, he spent the next few years in America, experiencing the excesses of the Woodstock generation before reforming in Europe. Now in his 70s and a leading monk at the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland - the first Buddhist centre in the West - Lama Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at his momentous life.
Main title:
From a mountain in Tibet : a monk's journey / Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Life, 2023.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241988954 (pbk)
Dewey class:
294.3092B/LOSB.LOS294.309920 LOSB-LOS
LC class:
BQ998
Local class:
B LOS
Language:
English
BRN:
3272813
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