Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town

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Label

Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town

Title remainder

life and death in a Tibetan town

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Demick

Creator

• Demick, Barbara

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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

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