Politics of sorrow : unity and allegiance across Tibetan exile
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Omfang | XVIII, 349 sider
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| Opplysninger | A Government in Exile -- Unity in Exile -- The Group of Thirteen -- Seven Resolutions and Supporting Documents -- Against the Grain of History: Mutiny at the Ockenden School -- The Convergence of Thirteen Leaders -- A Politics of Sorrow -- A People's Government -- Conclusion: A Statement of Real Truth.. - "Barely a year into exile, 60 men representing diverse regional and religious groups of Tibetans in exile made an oath to the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India, to follow his wishes to remain united and to build unity among Tibetans. Accepting this traditional contract of unwavering loyalty, burden of debt, and renouncement of dissent, the Dalai Lama initiated the new democratic system for the Tibetan nation. However, a group of individuals who had been chieftains and lamas in regions of Kham, East Tibet, prior to their escape from Tibet met secretly in New Delhi in 1966 to establish the organization they named Bhod Dedon Tsokpa (Tibetan Welfare Association) to protect the group's diverse regional histories and religious traditions. Critics of the organization named them Tsho Khag bcu Gsum, "Organization of 13" or "13 groups," for the group's 13 core leaders. The formation of the TWA established two competing narratives for the Tibetan nation-to-come in the first two decades of exile politics: the goal of unity represented by the exile polity and the marginal narrative of the Tibetan Welfare Association (TWA), who feared that unity would suppress intracultural and religious differences and minority histories"--
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| ISBN | 9780231212465. - 9780231212472
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