{"product_id":"falling-through-the-roof","title":"Falling through the Roof","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Thubten Samphel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Rupa\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2008\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 308\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9788129114341\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA group of Delhi University students decide to form the Tibetan Communist Party (TCP), with Tashi, the new chairman of the TCP, planning liberate his beloved Tibet with the same weapons which caused its downfall. His plans, however, do not fall in line with those of Drubchen Rinpoche who believes him to be the reincarnation of Drubtop Rinpoche. His first incarnation, according to the Lamp, invented the Word, the Tibetan alphabet on a hill in Kashmir, some fourteen hundred years ago. According to the Lamp, the invention of the Tibetan Word enabled the Tibetan people to take in the whole of the wisdom of ancient India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho will succeed in claiming Tashi’s beleaguered soul? The modern world that intruded into Tibet in the form of communism or the traditional world of Tibet as epitomized in the person of the Lama?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThubten Samphel lives and works in Dharamsala.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOMMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘At last, the book on the Tibetan exile experience that so many of us have been waiting for! Thubten Samphel knows the Tibetan situation as closely and informedly as almost anyone; and yet he also feels the frustration and restlessness of his fellow refugees with uncommon conviction and sympathy. His debut novel mixes passion with intelligence, great knowledge with real pathos, and allows us, for the first time in fictional form, to feel the predicament of displaced Tibet from within. Now we can begin to act accordingly.’\u003cbr\u003e-PICO LYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DELHI DAYS\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Majnu Ka Tilla\u003cbr\u003eChangistan\u003cbr\u003eTibet Memories\u003cbr\u003eDifferent Dreams, Different Tibets\u003cbr\u003eThe Old China Hand and the Avenging Golok\u003cbr\u003eFarewell to All That\u003cbr\u003eHint of Inheritance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LAMA’S STORIES\u003cbr\u003eLost Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle\u003cbr\u003eThe First Literate Tibetan and His Mastery of the Word\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of the Nineteenth Drubtop and Beijing Flies\u003cbr\u003eThe Ancestors of the One-Eyed Golok\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PROTEST DEMONSTRATION GENERATION\u003cbr\u003ePlans for Demonstration\u003cbr\u003eTashi and Metok\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON THE SILK ROAD TO SHAMBALA\u003cbr\u003eIn Search of a Cave in Srinagar\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Bamzai’s Tibetan Theories\u003cbr\u003eShambala Dreams\u003cbr\u003eThe Ladakh Interlude\u003cbr\u003eThe Enthronement of the Twentieth Drubtop Rinpoche\u003cbr\u003eMutton Leg in Bodh Gaya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDHARAMSALA\u003cbr\u003eHomecoming\u003cbr\u003eThe Lama Visits Dharamsala\u003cbr\u003eThe Year of Protests and Other Years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Thubten Samphel \/ Rupa \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153785680240,"sku":"24943","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/24943.jpg?v=1793914165","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/falling-through-the-roof","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}