Dalai Lama 14th of Tibet 1935- - In exile from the land of snows: the definitive account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest

PRAISE FOR JOHN F. AVEDONS

In Exile from the Land of Snows

What Alexander Solzhenitsyn did for the Soviet Union, John F. Avedon does for Tibet.

Los Angeles Times

Marvelous, heartrending, and heartwarming.

William Shawcross, author of
Counting Ones Blessings and The Queen Mother

The detailed life stories Avedon recounts are nothing short of stunning.

The Denver Post

Utterly engaging. There are passages dealing with India that will have you smelling the dust. This book deserves wide readership, the author our applause.

The San Diego Tribune

JOHN F. AVEDON

In Exile from the Land of Snows

John F. Avedon has written for The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Macleans, Parade, and other publications. He lives in New York City.

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SECOND VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2015

Copyright 1979, 1984, 1997, 2015 by John F. Avedon

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, a Penguin Random House company. Originally published in hardcover in the United States in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1984, and in paperback, in revised form, by Harper Perennial in 1997.

Vintage and colophon are trademarks of Random House LLC.

Portions of this work have previously appeared in Rolling Stone magazine.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

The New York Times: An excerpt from Exploring the Mysteries of Tibetan Medicine, from January 11, 1981, The New York Times Magazine by John F. Avedon and Tibets Exile Generation from February 26, 1984, The New York Times Magazine by John F. Avedon. Copyright 1981, 1984, by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission of The New York Times Company.

The Central Tibetan Authority and the International Campaign for Tibet: Chronology of Tibetan-Chinese Relations, 1979 to 2014 was prepared using materials provided by the Central Tibetan Authority. Reprinted with permission of the Central Tibetan Authority and the International Campaign for Tibet.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Avedon, John F.
In exile from the land of snows / John F. Avedon. first edition
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Tibet (China)History1951 I. Title. DS786.A94 1994 951.505dc20 94-9866

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For the People of Tibet

1

Before the Fall
19331950

2

Occupation
19501959

3

In Exile from the Land of Snows
19591960

4

Reconstruction
19601974

5

The Fight for Tibet
19591984

6

Tibetan Medicine
THE SCIENCE OF HEALING

7

On Pilgrimage with the Dalai Lama

8

The Wheel of Protection

9

Tibet Enslaved
19591965

10

The Long Night
19661977

11

Return
19771984

S INCE F EBRUARY OF 2009 , one hundred and thirty-one Tibetans have burned themselves alive protesting Chinas occupation of Tibet.

The self immolations all indict six decades of Communist oppression: from Beijings initial million-death conquest to the current demographic onslaught destroying, with legions of settlers, Tibetan identity. Tibets apartheid relies on a ubiquitous surveillance grid of Nets In The Sky and Traps on The Ground to ensure stability maintenance for a harmonious society. A new truism describes Beijings rule: In Lhasa nowadays there are more Chinese than Tibetans, more soldiers than monks, and more surveillance cameras than windows.