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Eat the Buddha life and death in a Tibetan town

"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 journ...

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Main Author: Demick, Barbara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Random House, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Tibetans > China > Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou > Social conditions.
Tibetans > China > Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou > Social life and customs.
Buddhism > Social aspects > China > Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou.
Refugees, Tibetan.
Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) > Social conditions.
Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou (China) > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The last princess
  • Eat the Buddha
  • Return of the dragon
  • The year that time collapsed
  • A thoroughly Chinese girl
  • Red city
  • Exile
  • The black cat and the golden worm
  • A Tibetan education
  • A peacock from the West
  • 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
  • India
  • Everything but my freedom.

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