Daughter of Tibet

Daughter of Tibet
Author: Rinchen Dolma Taring
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1970
Genre: Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN:

Daughter of Tibet

Daughter of Tibet
Author: Rinchen Dolma Taring
Publisher: Wisdom Publications (MA)
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Rinchen Taring was born in 1910 in one of the oldest families in Tibet. She was the first Tibetan girl to speak and write English.

Child of Tibet

Child of Tibet
Author: Soname Yangchen
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2007
Genre: Exiles
ISBN: 9780749951399

This book tells the remarkable story of Soname's triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. When she was just sixteen Soname risked death in a freedom trek across the Himalayas, finally arriving in Dharamsala, home in exile of the Dalai Lama. Even after managing to escape from Tibet, she faced further dangers and heartache in India, being forced by destitution to give her daughter away. Soname later managed to reach England, where she met and married an Englishman and came to live in Brighton. Her hidden talent was discovered when she sang a traditional Tibetan song at a wedding reception, unaware that a member of a famous band was a guest. Concerts followed. Tracing her long-lost daughter has long been Soname's preoccupation, and it is hoped that her daughter will finally join her in England later this year. Hers is a story of immense will, unbelievable courage and, above all, an indomitable soaring free spirit.

Favorite Children's Stories from China & Tibet

Favorite Children's Stories from China & Tibet
Author: Lotta Carswell-Hume
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1462908004

This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Chinese and Tibeten folk and fairytales and other stories--providing insight into a rich literary culture. Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet is a captivating collection of stories from different parts of China and Tibet. Enter a mythical world where animals speak and play tricks on each other. Also depicted are humans who perform both good and bad magic, humans who become animals, animals who become human, magic pancakes, wishing cups, fairy boats, and a Tibetan creation story. These unique stories are fresh and charming, filled with humorous insights into Tibetan and Chinese culture and history--including the influence of the moon and importance of festivals. They make perfect new additions to story time or bedtime reading, and readers of all ages will find much to love within these pages. Chinese and Tibeten folk tales include: A Chinese Cinderella The Country of the Mice The Wishing Cup The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey A Hungry Wolf The King of the Mountain How the Deer Lost His Tale The Children's Favorite Stories series was created to share the folktales and legends most beloved by children in the East with young readers of all backgrounds in the West. Other multicultural children's books in this series include: Asian Children's Favorite Stories, Indian Children's Favorite Stories, Indonesian Children's Favorite Stories, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, Singapore Children's Favorite Stories, Chinese Children's Favorite Stories, Korean Children's Favorite Stories, Balinese Children's Favorite Stories, and Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories.

The Mountains of Tibet

The Mountains of Tibet
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1989-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0064432114

After dying, a Tibetan woodcutter is given the choice of going to heaven or to live another life anywhere in the universe.

Daughter of the Mountains

Daughter of the Mountains
Author: Louise Rankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1993
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9780329061012

Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.

Caravan to Tibet

Caravan to Tibet
Author: Deepa Agarwal
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8184758472

Fourteen-year-old Debu sets off across the high mountain passes from Kumaon to Tibet to search for his father who got lost in a blizzard the year before. Adventures follow thick and fast—a forced stay in a monastery with a boy lama who takes a fancy to him, his capture by the cruel, enigmatic bandit Nangbo, who has magical powers, and a stay in the legendary goldfields of Thok Jalong. And finally—a heart-pounding, breathtaking horse race. Does Debu find his father. Does he win the race? Pick up this page-turner to find out!

Tibetan Folk Tales

Tibetan Folk Tales
Author: A. L. Shelton
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1907256288

It is found among the old, old histories of the Tibetans that a female demon living among the mountains in Northern India mated with a monkey from the forests of Tibet, and from this union sprang the Tibetan race of people. The greater part of their literature is of a sacred nature, telling of their creation, of the formation of the world, of Buddha and his miraculous birth and death, of his reincarnations and the revisions of his teachings. A kind of almanac, a little astronomy, plans for casting a horoscope, and many books filled with religious teachings and superstitions, including the worship of devils and demons, are about all that can be found. The 49 little stories in this book are told as the people sit around their boiling tea made over a three stone camp-fire. They are handed down from father to son, from mother to daughter, and though often filled with their superstitious beliefs, through them all run a vein of humor and the teachings of a moral truth which is quite unexpected. These tales were gathered by Dr. A. L. Shelton on his trips among the Tibetans, around their camp-fires at night, and in their black tents high up in the mountains. Every country has its folk-lore tales that have always been a joy and pleasure to the children, not only of their own land, but of other lands as well. May these stories add a little to this pleasure and enjoyment everywhere, in whatsoever tongue they may be translated or in whatever land they may be read. Flora Beal Shelton 1925

Dolma & Dolkar

Dolma & Dolkar
Author: Tashi Tsering Josayma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1990
Genre: Medicine, Oriental
ISBN:

Coming Home to Tibet

Coming Home to Tibet
Author: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0834840103

In this beautifully written memoir, a daughter travels to her mother's Tibetan homeland and finds both her own deep connections to her heritage and a people trying to maintain its cultural integrity despite Chinese occupation. After her mother dies in a car accident in India, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Her mother left Tibet in her youth as a refugee and lived in exile the rest of her life, always yearning to return home. When the author arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet, she realizes that she had been preparing for this homecoming her whole life. Coming Home to Tibet is Dhompa's evocative tribute to her mother and a homeland that she knew little about. Dhompa's story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land, people, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time. It's an intriguing memoir and also an unusual inside view of life in contemporary Tibet, among ordinary people trying to negotiate the changes enforced on it by Chinese rule and modern society.