Rinchen dolma taring biography of mahatma

Politics/History:

1. Russia's Tibet File by Nikolai S Kuleshov
2. The Five Foot Road: In Search Of A Vanished China by Angus McDonald
3. Tibet: The Road Ahead by Dr Dawa Norbu
4. Dharamsala And Beijing: Initiatives & Correspondence 1981-1993 by DIIR
5. Fate Of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects by Claude Arpi
6. Tibetans In Exile: The Democratic Vision by Ajit Bhattacharjea
7. Bharat Ki Tibbat Niti Mulyankan Evam Vikalp (Hindi) by LL Mehrotra
8. India And Tibet by Sir Francis Younghusband
9. The Chinese Betrayal: My Years With Nehru by BN Mullik
10. The Spirit Of Tibet: Vision For Human Liberation by HH the XIV Dalai Lama
11. The Status Of Tibet: History, Rights & Prospects In Internati

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    Newspeak & New Tibet, Part – II

    The Myth of China’s Modernization of Tibet and the Tibetan Language, Part Two

    By Jamyang Norbu

    During the 20s and 30s, many other new products came to Tibet . The popular kye-par, or honorifically sung-par (gramophone, lit. voice-print) with its 78rpm bhentse (record, perhaps from the Chinese panzi for plate) made of poekar (shellac or plastic) enlivened Lhasa’s evening parties. The early horn gramophone was called the kyepar dungchin-chen or kyepar dungchin-kha ; dungchin being the word for the giant monastic horn . Western style dancing became popular with the nobles and the well to do. Harrer claims that the foxtrot was introduced to Lhasa by Robert Ford, while Dr. Tsewang Pemba informs us that the “Palais Glide” and “Boomps-a-daisy” had their moments in the Holy City . All this partying necessitated the lighting of sashu (petromax pressure lanterns) in your living-room or garden when there was a power failure. This particular lamp also contributed a nice tongue-twister: “ simsha shasur sashu sarpa” (Shasur mansion’s new lantern) to the stock of the city’s simple parlour games. Kerosene ( sanum, lit “earth-oil”) for the lanterns were transported from India on the back of m

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