Across Many Mountains

by Yangzom Brauen

Book Overview

A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom

Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250012031
• ISBN13: 9781250012036
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An extraordinary story of Buddhist life for rural nuns and monks in Tibet before the Chinese invasi

An extraordinary story of a simple Tibetan Buddhist monk and nun caring for a rural temple in the Kham region who must decide to stay or flee after China’s invasion. Told across three generations of Tibetan women, this book is full of key cultural moments of Buddhist life and death at the top of the world, life in India as Tibetans-in-exile, and the contrast of the life of the granddaughter born in the west. I’m on my second reading. Can’t recommend this enough.