From a mountain in Tibet

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Lama Yeshe didn’t see a car until he was 15 years old. In his quiet village, he and other children ran in fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. Food was carefully apportioned and eaten together, everyone was family. The arrival of Chinese army cars one day in 1959 changed everything. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising, he escaped to India through the Himalayas to start over as a refugee. One of only 13 survivors out of 300 travellers, he spent the next few years in America, experiencing the excesses of the Woodstock generation before reforming in Europe. Now in his 70s and a leading monk at the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland – the first Buddhist centre in the West – Lama Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at his momentous life.

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Lama Yeshe didn’t see a car until he was fifteen. But everything changed with the arrival of Chinese army vehicles in 1959. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising, he escaped to India through the Himalayas as one of only 13 survivors out of 300 refugees.

Now in his seventies and a leading monk at the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland, Lama Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at his momentous life – from his quiet early years and the moment his world changed to his time spent in America, experiencing the excesses of the Woodstock generation. And to his life now.

Written with erudition and humour, From a Mountain in Tibet shines a light on how the most desperate of situations can help us to uncover vital life lessons and attain lasting peace and contentment.
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Brilliant and riveting. This book shows us that freedom is a choice we can all make‘ Gelong Thubten, author of A Monk’s Guide to Happiness

A fascinating story of an incredible life, told with unflinching honesty‘ Dr John Sellars author of Lessons in Stoicism

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Weight 0.191 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.7 cm
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Paperback

Pages

272

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

294.3092 (edition:23)

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General – Trade / Code: K