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BL
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| Record Number
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688735
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b510924
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| Main Entry
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Talty, Stephan
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| Title & Author
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Escape from the land of snows : : the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero /\ Stephan Talty
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Crown Publishers,, c2011
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| Page. NO
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xv, 302 p. :: map ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0307460959
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: 0307460975 (ebk.)
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: 9780307460950
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: 9780307460974 (ebk.)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index
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| Contents
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An examination of prior memories -- To Lhasa -- Across the Ghost River -- Eastern fires -- A rumor -- Foreign brothers -- Across the Kyichu -- Flight -- The Norbulingka -- OpIm -- "Godless Reds vs. a living god" -- The Jokhang -- Lhuntse Dzong -- In Tibetan prisons -- The last border -- Meeting a poet -- Bonfires
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| Abstract
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Documents the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured
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| Subject
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Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho,1935-Childhood and youth
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| Subject
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Escapes-- China-- Tibet
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| Dewey Classification
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294.3/923092B
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| LC Classification
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BQ7935.B777T36 2011
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