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Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town / by Barbara Demick.

Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town / by Barbara Demick.
Eat the Buddha :
Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who have long romanticized Tibetans as a deeply spiritual, peaceful people. She tells a sweeping story that spans decades through the lives of her subjects, among them a princess whose family lost everything in the Cultural Revolution; a young student from a nomadic family who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirta; an upwardly mobile shopkeeper who falls in love with a Chinese woman; a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance. Demick paints a broad canvas through an intimate view of these lives, depicting the tradition of resistance that results in the shocking acts of self-immolation, the vibrant, enduring power of Tibetan Buddhism, and the clash of modernity with ancient ways of life. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.

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Record Number 647617
ISBN 9781925498783
Author Demick, Barbara
Title Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town / by Barbara Demick.
Publication details Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2020.
Pagination etc. xvii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical resources and index.
Summary Note Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who have long romanticized Tibetans as a deeply spiritual, peaceful people. She tells a sweeping story that spans decades through the lives of her subjects, among them a princess whose family lost everything in the Cultural Revolution; a young student from a nomadic family who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirta; an upwardly mobile shopkeeper who falls in love with a Chinese woman; a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance. Demick paints a broad canvas through an intimate view of these lives, depicting the tradition of resistance that results in the shocking acts of self-immolation, the vibrant, enduring power of Tibetan Buddhism, and the clash of modernity with ancient ways of life. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.
Subject Demick, Barbara -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Travel writing
Tibetans -- China -- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou -- Social life and customs
Buddhism - Social aspects
Refugees, Tibetan
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social conditions
Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) -- History
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