My Youth in Tibet takes us back to a time when Tibet was a land that truly belonged to Tibetans.

In the first part of the book, the author vividly recounts instance that takes place during her childhood and during the early part of her married life, with both candor and charm. In particular, we see the life of a woman who was not part of the nobility, unlike most memoirs of Tibetan women so far which have been of women from the nobility.

The second part of the book concentrates on the Regent Reting Rinpoche, her uncle. Here we are reveled intimate details of Reting Rinpoche, the person, and the much loved uncle. This entirely fresh perspective on the Regent is a welcome change from what has been written before about him.

My Youth in Tibet : Recollections of a Tibetan Woman, Tseyang Sadutshang, LTWA, 61 pp, $12.00

Tseyang Sadutshang (author) was born in Tibet in 1926. She fled in 1959 with her entire family and escaped to India. However, her mother refused obstinately to join her because she was in the middle of receiving some religious teachings. Later, the Chinese authorities refused to let her leave for India, causing her daughter much distress.

Now well into her eighties, Tseyang Sadutshang lives in Rajpur, India with her husband, Rinchen Sadutshang, who served the Tibetan Government for over thirty years, both in Tibet and in exile. She has five children living, one in Canada, one in the US, one in Nepal, one in Sikkim and one in Dharamsala, India. She also has thirteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

YangDol Tsatultsang (translator) is Tseyang Sadutshang's second eldest daughter. She currently lives with her husband Lhundup Tsatultsang in Kathmandu, where she works as a translator and is part of the Sakya Pandita Translation Team at the International Buddhist Academy.
She has two children -- a daughter who is married to the Sakya Trizin's eldest son, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, and a son who lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and daughter.

CONTENTS: My Youth in Tibet: Recollections of a Tibetan Woman
Introduction		vii
PART ONE
1.	A remarkable experience in Reting	1
2.	A visit to a nomad camp	5
3.	Playing truant in Reting -- Part - 1	8
4.	Playing truant in Reting -- Part - 2	10
5.	Reting Khoryug Chopa	12
6.	'Pangtuk Lachai Thokok' -- A folk story from Reting	14
7.	Sagadawa prostrations in Lhasa	19
8.	My grandmother, Reting Rinpoche's mother	23
9.	How I came to be a bride at Sadutshang	25
10.	My responsibilities at Sadutshang	29
11.	Who ate better?	33
PART TWO
12.	Events leading to the recognition of the 5th Reting Rinpoche	35
13.	Reting Rinpoche returns home after his studies at Sera Je College	40
14.	The 13th Dalai Lama comes to Reting	42
15.	The mystery of Reting Rinpoche's fragrance	45
16.	Changing fortunes	47
17.	The impecunious nobleman	50
18.	Reting Rinpoche is taken prisoner	52
19.	The last time I saw Reting Rinpoche	54
20.	False allegations against Reting Rinpoche	56
21.	Glossary	58