Tibet as I Knew It: The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

by Tsewang Yishey Pemba

Book Overview

Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666908584
• ISBN13: 9781666908589
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 228 Pages