MODERN TIBET: CURRENT TIBETAN SITUATION, HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURAL SURVIVAL, AND TIBETAN EXILE EXPERIENCE

The Anguish of Tibet
Edited by Petra Kelly, Gert Bastian, and Pat Aiello. An important collection of 24 essays, articles, and speeches, on the current Tibetan situation, with a blend of Tibetan and non-Tibetan scholars, political leaders and activists speaking about Tibetan history, the Chinese occupation, the issue of independence, human rights, environmental issues and political initiatives. Includes an appendices of primary source documents from Treaties to UN Resolutions.
(H,T) Paper. 382 Pages. $17.00

In Exile from the Land of Snows
By John Avedon. Considered a primer on the current Tibetan situation, recounting the modern history of Tibet from 1933 through the Chinese invasion, the exile of The Dalai Lama and the evolution of the contemporary Tibetan Diaspora. With chapters on the Tibetan resistance movement, Tibetan medicine, and Tibet's Chief Oracle. This updated edition contains a useful timeline and an in-depth interview with The Dalai Lama. Recommended as a text for high school and college classes.
(H,T) Paper. 456 Pages. $16.00

A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands
By David Patt. The accounts of two Tibetans, a woman from Eastern Tibet and a former Tibetan government official in Lhasa, who tell what it was like to live in Tibet during the first 30 years of Chinese communist rule.
Paper. 268 Pages. $12.95

Tashi Jong: A Traditional Tibetan Community in Exile
A film by Barbara Green and the Tibetan Video Project. An award winning documentary about villagers from a community in the Kham Province of Tibet who flee their homeland after the Chinese occupation and resettle as a community in the foothills of Northern India. The lama who arranges this resettlement named their village Tashi Jong or Auspicious Valley, and helped create a self-sustaining Tibetan enclave in exile The film offers a model for the sustainability of traditional culture, once insulated from the outside world, now redefining itself in a modern world. A valuable cross-cultural source for teaching students (grade 5 & up) about elements and patterns of culture and the growing trend of vanishing traditional culture. Educational themes: traditional culture, exile experience, diaspora, sustainability, education, cultural survival.
(H) Video. 45 minutes. $30.00