000			02795nam a22002177a 4500
005			20190122160246.0
008			190103b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781250012036
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;113061 _d;22/12/2018
082			_a305.8954 BRA
100			_aYangzom Brauen
245			_aAcross many mountains _b: a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom _c/Yangzom Brauen
260			_aNew York _b : St. Martin's Press _c, 2011.
300			_a306 pages, [16] pages of plates _b : illustrations (some color), map _c ; 25 cm
365			_b1369
520			_aA memoir and portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature and a sense of the spiritual in all things. She married a monk, had two children, and lived in peace and prayer. But not for long. There was a saying in Tibet: "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth." The Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything. When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps. She lost both her husband and her youngest child on that journey, but the future held an extraordinary turn of events that would forever change her life, the arrival in the refugee camps of a cultured young Swiss man long fascinated with Tibet. Martin Brauen will fall instantly in love with Kunsang's young daughter, Sonam, eventually winning her heart and hand, and taking mother and daughter with him to Switzerland, where Yangzom will be born. Many stories lie hidden until the right person arrives to tell them. In rescuing the story of her now 90-year-old inspirational grandmother and her mother, Yangzom Brauen has given us a book full of love, courage, and triumph, as well as allowing us a rare and vivid glimpse of life in rural Tibet before the arrival of the Chinese. Most importantly, though, this story is a testament to three strong, determined women who are linked by an unbreakable family bond
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aTibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Biography.
700			_aYangzom Brauen
942			_cBOOK
999			_c50653 _d50653