This book is a portrait of the people, the religion, the customs and the daily life of Tibet by Thubten Jigme Norbu, the elder brother of the present Dalai Lama and himself both the reincarnation of a venerated teacher and the abbot of one of the largest monasteries in Tibet, and Colin M. Turnbull, author of The Forest People. They describe Tibet's literature, the legends and realities of its religious life, the rituals and ancient customs of a complex theocracy--and the final ordeal of China's seizure of Tibet which drove the Dalai Lama and his companions from the country.
Tibet, Thubten Jigme Norbu and Colin M. Turnbull, Touchstone, Paperback, 352 pp, $22.95
Colin M. Turnbull was born in London, and now lives in Connecticut. He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy and politics. After serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II, he held a research grant for two years in the Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University, in India, and then returned to Oxford, where he studied anthropology, specializing in the African field.
He has made five extended field trips to Africa, the last of which was spent mainly in the Republic of Zaire. From these trips he drew the material for his first book, The Forest People, an account of the three years he spent with the Pygmies of Zaire.
Mr. Turnbull was a Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and a Corresponding Member of Le Musee Royal d'Afrique Centrale.
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CONTENTS: Tibet
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INTRODUCTION
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7
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AUTHORS' NOTE
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11
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NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION
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13
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PROLOGUE:
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The Legend of the Beginning
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17
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CHAPTER ONE:
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Khabachen: The Land of Snow
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33
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CHAPTER TWO:
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A Peasant Childhood
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47
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CHAPTER THREE:
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Mountain Nomads
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61
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CHAPTER FOUR:
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The Waters of Pleasure
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103
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CHAPTER FIVE:
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The Kingless Age
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117
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CHAPTER SIX:
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The First Light
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135
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CHAPTER SEVEN:
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Miracles and Darkness
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151
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CHAPTER EIGHT:
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The Rebirth of Religion
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175
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CHAPTER NINE:
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The Foundation of the Order
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191
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CHAPTER TEN:
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A Celestial Dynasty
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213
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CHAPTER ELEVEN:
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Incarnation and Succession
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225
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CHAPTER TWELVE:
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Monastic Rule
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245
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
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The Seed of Dissension
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265
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
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A Riddle of Love
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279
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
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The Discipline of Religion
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295
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
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A Foreign World
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309
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
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The New Order
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321
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EPILOGUE:
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The Legend of the End
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339
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ILLUSTRATION SECTION
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77
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