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Undefeated - Paljor Thondup

Undefeated

Confessions of a Tibetan Warrior

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Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2021
Tibet House (Verlag)
978-1-941312-10-0 (ISBN)
CHF 37,90 inkl. MwSt
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The remarkable memoirs of Paljor Thondup, a Tibetan freedom fighter who was inspired by the Dalai Lama to renounce his duty of blood vengeance, become a peace warrior and conquer the inner enemy.

After losing his family in a deadly ambush, Paljor Thondup made the decision to respond not with violence and revenge, but with compassion and forgiveness.

The active resistance to the Chinese invasion of Tibet coalesced into a guerrilla army of freedom fighters, the Chushi Gangdruk. In the 1950s, China's Red Army and communist cadres systematically slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Tibetans in Amdo and Kham, seeking to enslave the survivors.

Paljor Thondup's diehard Khampa family rose up to repel the invaders. The leaders hated the ongoing heroic raiding by his family, and finally slaughtered them all - only Paljor and his close cousin Dupa survived. Hearing his father's dying wishes, Paljor put down his weapons and changed his life, migrating to India to seek help from the Dalai Lama. Paljor and Dupa then began a modern education, to continue the struggle for Tibet as businessmen.

Paljor Thondup was a Tibetan freedom fighter in the battle against the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the early 1950s. Thondup escaped to Nepal with other Tibetan refugees in 1959 once the Dalai Lama had been forced to flee Tibet into exile in India. Thondup eventually relocated to New Mexico and became a successful businessman. In 1980, he founded Project Tibet, which rendered humanitarian and educational relief to Tibetan communities inside Tibet as well as to refugees in India and Nepal. Thondup established the Tibetan Association of Santa Fe and served on the Board of Directors of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Susan Brown
Zusatzinfo 18 black & white photos in a 20-page photo insert
Verlagsort Carlsbad
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 230 mm
Gewicht 345 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 1-941312-10-1 / 1941312101
ISBN-13 978-1-941312-10-0 / 9781941312100
Zustand Neuware
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