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Tibet as I Knew It

The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
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Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his fathers diaries and his conversations with Tibetan and British officials as well as people at the grassroots. His own metamorphosis, as he leaves Tibet in 1949 for higher education abroad, foreshadows the metamorphosis of Tibet and its inescapable fate in the decade that followed.
Tsewang Yishey Pemba was born on June 5, 1932 in Gyantse, Tibet. He is the author of Young Days in Tibet (1957), Idols on the Path (1966), and White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings (2017).
Foreword, Dalai Lama Chapter 1: Historical Background Chapter 2: Family Background Chapter 3: Early Glimmerings in Gyantse and Yatung, Tibet Chapter 4: Journey to Lhasa Chapter 5: Forbidden Baston or Open City: A Portrait of Lhasa Chapter 6: Three Years in Lhasa Chapter 7: The Dalai Lama and Reincarnation Chapter 8: Tibetans and Sex Chapter 9: Lhasa to India: A Journey to School Chapter 10: A Tibetan Schoolboy During the British Raj: Metamorphosis Chapter 11: Back Home to Tibet Chapter 12: Another Metamorphosis and Another Winter in Yatung Chapter 13: Farewell Tibet Epilogue I: Return to Tibet in 2007 Epilogue II: Return from Tibet Bibliography About the Author
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