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<p>Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two decades in Lhasa as a requisitioned laborer and "class enemy." <br><br>In this eloquent autobiography, Khétsun describes what life was like during those troubled years.
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- Author
- Tubten Khétsun
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781322438733
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Buddhism, Memoir, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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