By Heinrich Harrer
The recent York occasions bestseller Seven Years in Tibet instructed the excellent tale of an idyllic lifestyles at the roof of the area, prior to it was once destroyed by way of the invading chinese language military. Now, within the amazing go back to Tibet, Austrian adventurer Henrich Harrer revisits the folks and areas he left in the back of. A compelling mixture of background, faith, and trip writing, his booklet bears witness to the agony and perseverance of this historical civilization less than chinese language rule. opposed to a backdrop of ruined monasteries and the gorgeous, mysterious Himalayas, Harrer vividly conjures up either a unfastened Tibet within which faith and religion have been significant positive factors of everyday life, and the present-day occupied state from which a profoundly religious tradition threatens to vanish. He displays at the country's difficulties and in a reunion together with his former scholar, the Dalai Lama, discusses methods of retaining the Tibetans' nationwide personality and their native land. Like Seven Years in Tibet, this can be a undying tale of jap tradition that beckons readers to a land of majestic mountains and a faith that has persevered for 1000 years.
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That was something which progressive and wise Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, had wanted to do themselves, but without the use of force. At present negotiations are still in progress, and the Dalai Lama can afford to wait. In consequence, there is no immediate prospect of the return of the approximately 100,000 Tibetans living in exile. But do they want to return to their old homeland? The 40,000 to 50,000 Tibetans settled in southern India are said to be anxious to return, nearly all of them, even though they have put down new roots and, thanks to their adaptability and hard work, have found accommodation and own their fields.
In June 1980 they devised a program of reforms that was to grant the Tibetans selfdetermination and self-administration. They would now be able to decide for themselves what crops they wanted to grow, and they would be free to sell their harvest surpluses. They were once more allowed to cultivate their own plots of land and to keep yaks and sheep. It was promised that eighty percent of the 200,000 Chinese would leave Tibet by 1982, and those remaining were advised to learn the Tibetan language.
These were predominantly nobles, semi-nobles and lamas; they were punished by being made to perform the lowliest tasks, such as laboring on roads and bridges. They were further humiliated by being made to clean up the city before the tourists arrived; they were subsequently packed into trucks and kept out of sight while the first tourists and, more important, the Dalai Lama's delegation arrived. There was a camp for these outcasts a short distance east of Lhasa— Tsal Gungthang—originally for beggars and vagrants.