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Chargement... Buddha's warriors : the story of the CIA-backed Tibetan freedom fighters, the Chinese invasion, and the ultimate fall of Tibet (édition 2004)par Mikel Dunham
Information sur l'oeuvreBuddha's Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet par Mikel Dunham
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"In the last sixty years, Tibet has been so mythologized and politicized that the outside world remains confused about what really happened when Mao Tse-tung invaded in 1950. Far from being a popular and peaceful occupation, as Beijing propaganda would insist, the Chinese presence in Tibet evoked anger among the people who suddenly found themselves under the thumb of a communist regime. Tibetans rose up in arms to protect their families, homes, culture, and, above all, their religion, headed by the Dalai Lama." "Buddha's Warriors is the story of those tens of thousands of Tibetans who violently resisted the bloody occupation of their country and the desecration of all that was holy to them. Tibet's only source of outside help came clandestinely from the United States. A small group of CIA agents secretly trained and armed the freedom fighters, hoping to increase Tibet's chance of thwarting the Chinese.".
"Author Mikel Dunham spent seven years interviewing the warriors who fought the Chinese, collecting stories that otherwise would have been lost to history. He also befriended the CIA officers who trained the young Tibetans and who subsequently grew to love the Buddhist soldiers as brothers. These firsthand accounts bring faces and deeply personal emotions to the forefront of the ongoing tragedy of Tibet."--BOOK JACKET. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Tibet in the last sixty years has been so much mystified and politicized that the world at large is confused about what really happened to the "Rooftop of the World" when Mao Tse-tung invaded its borders in 1950. There are dramatically conflicting accounts from Beijing and Dharamsala (home of the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile). Adding to the confusion is the romanticized spin that Western writers and filmmakers have adopted in an effort to appease the popular myth of Shangri-La.
Buddha's Warriors is no fairy tale. Set in a narrative framework but relying heavily on the oral transcripts of the Tibetan men who actually fought the Chinese, Buddha's Warriors tells, for the first time, the inside story of these historic developments, while drawing a vivid picture of Tibetan life before, during, and after Mao's takeover. The firsthand accounts, gathered by the author over a period of seven years, bring faces and deeply personal emotions to the forefront of this ongoing tragedy. It is a saga of brave soldiers and cowardly traitors. It's about hope against desolation, courage against repression, atheism against Buddhism. Above all, it's about what happens to an ancient civilization when it is thrust overnight into the modern horrors of twentieth-century warfare.