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001 2009033048
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050 00 $aBQ970.O25$bA3 2010
082 00 $a294.3/923092$aB$222
100 0 $aLobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso,$d1950-
245 10 $aSurviving the dragon :$ba Tibetan lama's account of 40 years under Chinese rule /$cby Arjia Rinpoche ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
260 $a[Emmaus, Pa.] :$bRodale ;$a[New York] :$bDistributed to the trade by Macmillan,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 262 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aPart I: Childhood -- My mother has a prophetic dream -- Raised by a family of 4,000 monks -- Living under the great leap forward -- Following a Tibetan hero -- Part II: Under the dragon's claw -- "Comets in the sky, chaos on Earth" -- Enter the Cultural Revolution -- Removing paper hats -- Part III: On the political stage -- A communist matchmaker meets the Panchen Lama -- The sacred tree and the time machine -- Becoming a political Buddhist -- Part IV: Taking flight -- Stepping into my birthright -- The feast of privilege reveals its price -- Final days with the dragon -- From Kumbum to Kumbum West -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: How Buddhism came to Tibet, and the lineage of the Arjia Rinpoches -- Glossary of terms and names.
600 00 $aLobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso,$d1950-
650 0 $aReincarnate lamas$zChina$zTibet$vBiography.
650 0 $aPolitical activists$zChina$zTibet$vBiography.
651 0 $aTibet (China)$vBiography.
651 0 $aTibet (China)$xHistory$y1951-
651 0 $aTibet (China)$xPolitics and government$y1951-
610 20 $aTa er si (Huangzhong Xian, China)$vBiography.
650 0 $aBuddhists$zChina$zTibet$xSpiritual life.
650 0 $aMonastic and religious life$zChina$zTibet.
651 0 $aTibet (China)$xReligious life and customs.