Tibet Is My Country
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Born into one of Tibet's most revered families — the elder brother of the Dalai Lama — Thubten Jigme Norbu offers an extraordinary window into a world few outsiders have ever witnessed in Tibet is my Country. Narrated to Heinrich Harrer and translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald, this memoir chronicles Norbu's extraordinary life from his recognition as the reincarnation of the high lama Taktser Rinpoche, through his upbringing in Tibetan monasteries, to the shattering upheaval brought by Chinese Communist forces in the mid-twentieth century. Woven through the personal narrative is a rich and deeply human portrait of Tibetan culture, Buddhism, and a civilization under existential threat. Norbu's account presents a society of profound spiritual depth and complex ritual life, rendered all the more poignant by its impending destruction. With the authority of an insider and the clarity of a man who has witnessed history's cruelest ironies firsthand, this memoir stands as an irreplaceable document of a lost world — and leaves the reader aching to understand what has been irrevocably swept away.
Author: Thubten Jigme Norbu
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Readers Union / Rupert Hart-Davis
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Born into one of Tibet's most revered families — the elder brother of the Dalai Lama — Thubten Jigme Norbu offers an extraordinary window into a world few outsiders have ever witnessed in Tibet is my Country. Narrated to Heinrich Harrer and translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald, this memoir chronicles Norbu's extraordinary life from his recognition as the reincarnation of the high lama Taktser Rinpoche, through his upbringing in Tibetan monasteries, to the shattering upheaval brought by Chinese Communist forces in the mid-twentieth century. Woven through the personal narrative is a rich and deeply human portrait of Tibetan culture, Buddhism, and a civilization under existential threat. Norbu's account presents a society of profound spiritual depth and complex ritual life, rendered all the more poignant by its impending destruction. With the authority of an insider and the clarity of a man who has witnessed history's cruelest ironies firsthand, this memoir stands as an irreplaceable document of a lost world — and leaves the reader aching to understand what has been irrevocably swept away.