Tibet: Myths and realities

Current History

Volumn 100, Issue 647, 2001, Pages 278-282

  Sautman, Barry ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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References (5)

1. Isabel Hilton, The Search for the Panchen Lama (London: Viking, 1999), p. 114;
2. Donald Lopez, Prisoners of Shangri-La.: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 197.
3. During the nineteenth century and first 75 years of the twentieth, a Tibetan-ruled Himalayan kingdom had essentially the same degree of "de facto independence" that the Tibetan émigrés now claim for old Tibet and that was absorbed by its protector. Indeed, the Tibetan émigré administration, which has supported India on every issue - from Kashmir to nuclear weapons - made no protest when in 1975 India took over Sikkim.
4. Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Development for Whom? A Report on the Chinese Development Strategies in Tibet and Their Impacts (Dharamsala: TYC, 1995).
5. Elliot Sperling, "Exile and Dissent: The Historical and Cultural context," in Melissa Harris and Sydney Jones, eds., Tibet since 1950: Silence, Prison, or Exile (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000), pp. 31-36.