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Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire Since the 2008 uprising, nearly 150 Tibetan monks have set fire to themselves in protest at the Chinese occupat
Tibet on Fire
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Authors: John Whalen-Bridge
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-07 - Publisher: Springer

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Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation
Eat the Buddha
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Pages: 353
Authors: Barbara Demick
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-28 - Publisher: Random House

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A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy “A brilliantly reported and eye-openi
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Authors: Bryan J. Cuevas
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing i
Forbidden Memory
Language: en
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Authors: Tsering Woeser
Categories: History
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When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and fact