Daughter of Tibet

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Rinchen Taring was born in 1910 in one of the oldest families in Tibet, and grew up in the close-knit world of Lhasa nobility - a Buddhist society virtually untourhced by the West. She was educated, howevr, in Darjeeling - the first TIbetan girl to speak and write English. She first married Dasang Dadul Tsarong, one time Commander-in-Chief of the Tibetan army, and later Jigme Taring, a prince of Sikkim.Her story covers the crucial fifty years oup to 1959; the freedom, pleasures and tragedies, customs and traditions of Tibetan life, all now destroyed. She recounts too her painful separation from friends and family when she escaped across the Himalayas, following the uprising against the Chinese in 1959 and the flight of the Dalai Lama.Mrs. Taring has written a new chapter to her story, originally published in 1970, telling of her dedicated work among Tibetan refugee children and old people in India since her exile, and of her recent reunion with many of her family.In Daughter of TIbet Mrs. Taring tells her story movingly and without artifice. She conveys throughout the humor, kindness, resilience and great faith so characteristic of her people.