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Can I read Flight of the Bon Monks on EtoBox?
Flight of the Bon Monks by Harvey Rice is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Flight of the Bon Monks about?
An inside account of the Chinese invasion of Tibet told through the voices of three persecuted monks• Shares the true story of three monks' heroic escape from occupied Tibet and the subsequent rebirth of the Bön religion in exileIntroduces Bön, Tibet's oldest religion, and a traditional way of life extinguished by foreign occupationReveals details of the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet and the exodus of thousands of Tibetans to neighboring countries Providing an inside view into the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the tenets of Bön, one of the world's oldest but least known religions, this book chronicles the true story of three Bön monks who heroically escaped occupied Tibet and went on to rebuild their culture through incredible resilience, determination, and passion. After taking his vows to become a Bön monk and completing a pilgrimage around 22,000-foot Mt. Kailash, the holiest mountain in Tibet, Tenzin Namdak...
Who reads Flight of the Bon Monks?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Harvey Rice
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Asian History, Humanities