[PDF] The Tibetan Independence Movement eBook

Author : Jane Ardley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1135790256

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The first serious analysis of the Tibetan independence movement, this book is also the first to view the struggle from a comparative perspective, making an overt comparison with the Indian independence movement.

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ITM was founded by the Dalai Lama's brother Thubten Jigme Norbu in 1995 to promote Tibetan independence through non-violent means. The site lays out its case for independence and why Tibet is important to the world. Under Archive is a list of the activities of the group over the years, such as protest marches and walks, with information on these activities. The site also offers links, addresses for elected officials and ways to help the Tibetan cause.

Author : Wang Lixiong
Publisher : Verso
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : History
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Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.

Author : Karma Palzom-Pasha
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File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2022
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This dissertation examines how Tibetan exiles were able to redefine peoplehood as displaced persons in India and Nepal and as naturalized American citizens. After the 1959 Chinese colonial occupation of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama created a Tibetan Government in Exile in India to rehabilitate the Tibetan people and work towards restoring Tibet's independence. In His Holiness's new 'Tibet' operating alongside Chinese-occupied Tibet, exiles were taught to embrace and practice democracy with the national goal of regaining Tibet's independence. Exiles believed that the Tibetan Government in Exile was the true government of Tibet and understood themselves to be refugees of Chinese invasion, despite the lack of recognition of their legal refugee status by all nation-states. However, an exiled government and a political base of followers backing an anti-colonial movement in South Asia were not enough. His Holiness looked to the United States to garner stronger support for Tibetan sovereignty. This study explores the transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement and particularly how Tibetan immigration to the U.S. since the beginning of exile was an integral part of how Tibetans shaped and reshaped the methods of the freedom struggle for independence. In looking at Tibetan immigrant experiences, I trace how the lack of the U.S. government's support for, and disavowal of Tibet's independence led to Tibetan immigrants using cultural and religious enrichment as a means to garner sympathy and support for Tibet. A central aspect of Tibetan activism in the United States became the reliance on American interests in Buddhism, the perpetuation of Shangri-la stereotypes, and the Dalai Lama's visits to propel the visibility of Tibet. This cultural recognition approach later became influential in how the Tibetan Government in Exile was able to permanently resettle 1,000 Tibetans to the U.S. and expand the scope of their influence after the passing of the Immigration Act of 1990, Tibetan Provision 134. While raising awareness about Tibet and living under the Tibetan Government in Exile, the various political transformations in the Tibetan Freedom Movement provided Tibetan exiles the possibility to live in a sovereign, territory-less Tibetan nation outside of their homeland.

Author : Tsering Woeser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2020-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1640122958

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When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet’s remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived. In Forbidden Memory the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People’s Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser’s annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. Heartbreaking and revelatory, Forbidden Memory offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today. Access the glossary.

Author : Ronald D. Schwartz
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1996
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ISBN : 9788120813700

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ABOUT THE BOOK:An inside look into Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation, this book charts the emergence of nonviolent protest in the years since 1987. Schwartz locates the resistance in Tibetan religion and culture, and in the role of a younger ge

Author : Shokdung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849049254

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This is a translation of one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era, a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March, 2008 - the 'Earth Rat' year according to the Tibetan calendar - as a re-awakening of Tibetan national consciousness and solidarity. The Division of Heaven and Earth was banned by the Chinese government on publication, and led to Shokdung being "disappeared" and imprisoned for nearly six months. This English translation is being made available for the first time since copies began to circulate underground in Tibet. The author, Tagyal -- who uses the pen name Shokdung, meaning "morning conch"-- one of Tibet's leading intellectuals, wrote his book in response to an unprecedented wave of bold demonstrations and expressions of Tibetan solidarity and national identity. In his foreword Matthew Akester, a Tibet specialist who translated this book into English, offers an account of the significance of these developments, which transformed the political landscape across the plateau and led to a sustained and violent crackdown by the Chinese authorities that continues to this day. Shokdung's book is regarded as the most daring and wide-ranging critique of China's policies in Tibet since the 10th Panchen

Author : James D. Seymour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315284634

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Although there have been numerous publications that argue the merit of Chinese rule over Tibet, and many more that argue for Tibetan self-determination, the world has not heard many Chinese voices supporting the latter view. This book exposed the reader to just that perspective from no less famous writers and activists than Wei Jingsheng, Yan Jiaqi, Shen Tong, Wang Rouwang, and others. Though theirs is the view of a small minority of Chinese, history may still record the publication of these essays as a milestone in the history of this issue.