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Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was said to be possessed by a deity associated with the famous warrior-king Gesar. In their rampage the mob attacked, mutilated, and killed county officials and local villagers as well as People's Liberation Army troops. This groundbreaking book, the first on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, revisits the Nyemo Incident, which has long been romanticized as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup demonstrate that far from being a spontaneous battle for independence, this violent event was actually part of a struggle between rival revolutionary groups and was not ethnically based. On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet proffers a sober assessment of human malleability and challenges the tendency to view every sign of unrest in Tibet in ethno-nationalist terms.

History --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- China --- 20th century tibetan history. --- bagor district. --- china. --- chinese imperialism. --- chinese occupation. --- combat. --- conflict. --- cultural revolution in tibet. --- cultural revolution. --- deity. --- gyenlo. --- independence. --- lhasa. --- mob. --- nationalist resistance. --- nyamdre. --- nyemo. --- peoples liberation army. --- political. --- possession. --- revolutionaries. --- rival revolutionary groups. --- tibet sovereignty debate. --- tibet. --- tibetan history. --- tibetan nationalism. --- violence. --- warrior king gesar. --- young nun.

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It is not possible to understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s, especially the events that occurred in 1957-59. The fourth volume of Melvyn C. Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, In the Eye of the Storm, provides new perspectives on Sino-Tibetan history during the period leading to the Tibetan Uprising of 1959. The volume also reassesses issues that have been widely misunderstood as well as stereotypes and misrepresentations in the popular realm and in academic literature (such as in Mao's policies on Tibet). Volume 4 draws on important new Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs, new biographies, and a large corpus of in-depth, specially collected political interviews to reexamine the events that produced the March 10th uprising and the demise of Tibet's famous Buddhist civilization. The result is a heavily documented analysis that presents a nuanced and balanced account of the principal players and their policies during the critical final two years of Sino-Tibetan relations under the Seventeen-Point Agreement of 1951.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- History --- 1950s. --- academic literature. --- biographies. --- buddhist civilization. --- china. --- chinese government. --- dalai lama. --- mao. --- march 10th uprising. --- memoirs. --- misrepresentations. --- misunderstood issues. --- political interviews. --- popular realm. --- reexamining events. --- seventeen point agreement of 1951. --- sino tibetan history. --- stereotypes. --- tibetan uprising of 1959.

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It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened-and why-during the 1950's. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C. Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material, including never before seen documents, and extensive interviews with Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and with Chinese officials. Goldstein furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.

HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- History. --- S24/0500 --- Tibet--History (incl. Relations with China and England) --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History. --- 1950s. --- archival. --- beijing. --- chinese communists. --- chinese government. --- chinese history. --- chinese politics. --- cold war. --- communist party. --- contemporary. --- dalai lama. --- illustrated. --- interviews. --- korean war. --- midcentury. --- modern world. --- peoples liberation army. --- political. --- politics. --- public policy. --- sino soviet alliance. --- socioeconomic reform. --- tibet. --- tibetan history. --- volume 2.

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This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao's Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party's administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950's, Phünwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Phünwang's deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing's equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years. Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the People's Republic of China, this absorbing chronicle illuminates one of the world's most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the fascinating details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet.

HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal, --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Tibetan Autonomous Region (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu (China) --- 西藏自治区 (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü jen min cheng fu (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) --- TAR (China) --- Xizang Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod Raṅ-skyoṅ-ljoṅs (China) --- Bod (China) --- Sitsang (China) --- Tibet (China) --- Thibet (China) --- Tibet-Chamdo (China) --- Tübüt (China) --- Xizang (China) --- Tibet --- Politics and government --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Phun-tshogs-dba?n-rgyal, Sgo-ra-na?n-pa. --- Тибет (China) --- Tu̇vd (China) --- Tȯvȯd (China) --- 西藏 (China) --- 20th century tibetan history. --- asian history. --- autobiography. --- bapa phuntsok wangyal. --- chinese communist party. --- communism. --- dalai lama. --- government and governing. --- guerrilla uprising. --- history. --- mao zedong. --- nationalist chinese government. --- phuntsok wangyal goranangpa. --- phuntsok wangyal. --- phunwang. --- political ideology. --- politics. --- qincheng. --- republic of china. --- revolution. --- revolutionary. --- sino tibetan relations. --- solitary confinement. --- tibet. --- tibetan communist party. --- tibetan politician.

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The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers-like the Dalai Lama-adopt liberal and democratic ideals, such as natural rights and individual autonomy. In the first in-depth account of disciplinary practices at a Tibetan monastery in India, Michael Lempert looks closely at everyday education rites-from debate to reprimand and corporal punishment. His analysis explores how the idioms of violence inscribed in these socialization rites help produce educated, moral persons but in ways that trouble Tibetans who aspire to modernity. Bringing the study of language and social interaction to our understanding of Buddhism for the first time, Lempert shows and why liberal ideals are being acted out by monks in India, offering a provocative alternative view of liberalism as a globalizing discourse.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders - Education - China - Tibet Autonomous Region. --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Education -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders - Education - India. --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- Education -- India. --- Discipline - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Discipline -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. --- Liberalism (Religion) - India. --- Liberalism (Religion) -- India. --- Tibetans - India - Religion. --- Tibetans -- India -- Religion. --- Violence - Religious aspects - Buddhism. --- Violence -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Liberalism (Religion) --- Violence --- Discipline --- Tibetans --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Buddhism --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Ethics --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Liberal theology --- Indifferentism (Religion) --- Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist --- Monasticism and religious orders, Lamaist --- Buddhist monasteries --- Buddhist sanghas --- Education --- Religious aspects --- books for reluctant readers. --- buddhism. --- controlling your emotions. --- creating world peace. --- disciplinary practices. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- evolution of monk traditions. --- history. --- how to be more calm. --- learning about religion. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reads. --- monk history. --- natural rights of humans. --- page turner. --- religion. --- students and teachers. --- study of language and social interaction. --- tibetan history. --- understanding buddhism. --- vacation reads. --- what is a monastery. --- what is a monk. --- who is dalai lama. --- Buddhism. --- Religion.