A Zorgay Tibetan Childhood
Paperback, 125 pages
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This rich, heart-warming story from the east edge of the Tibetan cultural region is set in Tebo at the border between Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It teaches us about contemporary changes, and elements of life that have stayed the same. Kondro has the oft repeated experience of being told, when ill, by a lama that he must become a novice or he will not recover. He declines that advice and survives with western medicine. His mother is not so fortunate in her encounter with the medical system in a remote rural region of China. Other changes come with the introduction of TV, e.g., a decline in telling Gesar stories, but the traditional practice of using the Tibetan Buddhist canon to benefit agricultural life persists. Influences of central...More >
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