Dhompa The Politics of Sorrow

Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-55939-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

The Politics of Sorrow tells the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of chieftains and lamas from the regions of Kham and Amdo, who sought to preserve Tibet’s cultural diversity in exile.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dhompa, Tsering Wangmo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Note on Transliteration, Titles, and Names
Timeline of Texts and Events
Introduction
1. A Government in Exile
2. Unity in Exile
3. The Group of Thirteen
4. Seven Resolutions and Supporting Documents
5. Against the Grain of History: Mutiny at the Ockenden School
6. The Convergence of Thirteen Leaders
7. A Politics of Sorrow
8. The People’s Government
Conclusion: A Statement of Real Truth
Acknowledgments
List of Thirteen Founders and Settlements
Appendix: Who’s Who
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is a professor of literature and creative writing at Villanova University. She is the author of the poetry collections My Rice Tastes Like the Lake (2011), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and Rules of the House (2002), as well as the memoir Coming Home to Tibet (2016). Her mother served as a member of parliament in the exile government for three terms.