The Resource Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town, Barbara Demick
Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town, Barbara Demick
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The item Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town, Barbara Demick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Deschutes Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 325 pages
- Contents
-
- Part one: 1958-1976
- The last princess
- Eat the Buddha
- Return of the dragon
- The year that time collapsed
- A thoroughly Chinese girl
- Red city
- Exile
- Part two: Interregnum, 1976-1989
- The black cat and the golden worm
- A Tibetan education
- A peacock from the West
- Part three: 1990-2013
- Wild baby yak
- A monk's life
- Compassion
- The party animal
- The uprising
- The eye of the ghost
- Celebrate or else
- No way out
- Boy on fire
- Sorrows
- The zip line
- Part four: 2014 to the present
- India
- Everything but my freedom
- Isbn
- 9780812998757
- Label
- Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town
- Title
- Eat the Buddha
- Title remainder
- life and death in a Tibetan town
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Demick
- Subject
-
- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Social conditions
- Buddhism -- Social aspects -- China | Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou
- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) -- History
- Tibetans -- China | Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou -- Social conditions
- Tibetans -- China | Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou -- Social life and customs
- Refugees, Tibetan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Demick, Barbara
- Dewey number
- 951/.38
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS797.77.A63
- LC item number
- D46 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Tibetans
- Tibetans
- Buddhism
- Refugees, Tibetan
- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China)
- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China)
- Label
- Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town, Barbara Demick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part one: 1958-1976 -- The last princess -- Eat the Buddha -- Return of the dragon -- The year that time collapsed -- A thoroughly Chinese girl -- Red city -- Exile -- Part two: Interregnum, 1976-1989 -- The black cat and the golden worm -- A Tibetan education -- A peacock from the West -- Part three: 1990-2013 -- Wild baby yak -- A monk's life -- Compassion -- The party animal -- The uprising -- The eye of the ghost -- Celebrate or else -- No way out -- Boy on fire -- Sorrows -- The zip line -- Part four: 2014 to the present -- India -- Everything but my freedom
- Control code
- 2019044133
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812998757
- Lccn
- 2019044133
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town, Barbara Demick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part one: 1958-1976 -- The last princess -- Eat the Buddha -- Return of the dragon -- The year that time collapsed -- A thoroughly Chinese girl -- Red city -- Exile -- Part two: Interregnum, 1976-1989 -- The black cat and the golden worm -- A Tibetan education -- A peacock from the West -- Part three: 1990-2013 -- Wild baby yak -- A monk's life -- Compassion -- The party animal -- The uprising -- The eye of the ghost -- Celebrate or else -- No way out -- Boy on fire -- Sorrows -- The zip line -- Part four: 2014 to the present -- India -- Everything but my freedom
- Control code
- 2019044133
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812998757
- Lccn
- 2019044133
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Social conditions
- Buddhism -- Social aspects -- China | Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou
- Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) -- History
- Tibetans -- China | Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou -- Social conditions
- Tibetans -- China | Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou -- Social life and customs
- Refugees, Tibetan
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