Living and Dying in Modern Tibet: The Time of Great Calamities

CONTENTS
Preface <4>
Contents <10>
Narrators <16>
Part One: Two Decades Before the Red Chinese Occupation <20>

 Chodron: One <22>
o Jangtsang Awo Marries Great Grandaunt <22>
o Jangtsang Awo is a Hero <23>
o The Tibet Army is Defeated <27>
o Consulting A Deity <29>

 Samdrubcho <32>
o Five Tribes Against Drawu <32>
o Reinforcement Troops From Ziling <33>

 Chodron: Two <36>
o The Dege-Drawu Conflict <36>
o Chodron Gives an Eyewitness Account <43>

 Choying Dorje <46>
o A Rolling Boulder <46>
o Encountering a Ghost <47>
o Renouncing Hunting <47>
o A Mountain Deity Kidnaps Grandfather\'s Servant
<48>
o Grandfather Fights the Tibet Army <51>
o Uncle Butruk <51>
o Unexpected Peaceful Liberation <54>
Part Two: 1940s-1970s <58>

 Lhakpa Wangmo <60>
o Father\'s Caravan Trip <61>
o Chinese Come to Our Village <63>
o Village Men Hide in the Mountains <65> 
•11•
o Escape From the Village <67>
o Commune Life <70>
o Attending a Tent School <71>
o Chasing Wolves Away <73>
o A Deity Protects the Sheep <75>
o The Fate of Tsering\'s Family <76>
o Father\'s Death <82>
o Drolma Saves People <86>
o Home Again <88>
o Killing a Leopard <92>
o Brother\'s Death <96>
o Stealing Barley <97>
o The Cultural Revolution <101>
o Destroying Religion <106>
o Confessions <109>
o Worshiping Mao <111>
o Kidnapped by a Ghost <113>
o Mother Visits Drolma in Dondrubling Town <117>
o Dog Massacre <118>
o Becoming a Mother <121>

 Kunga Zangpo <126>
o Encounter a Hared-Lipped Red Man <126>
o Joining the Resistance <127>
o Suffering from Public Struggle Meetings <133>

 Paldan <136>
o Watching a Battle From a Tent <136>

 Gedar <140>
o My Parents and Aunt Die <140>
o I Saved a Chinese Man and Good Karma Returned to
Me <141>

 Chimé Wangmo <142>
o A Pregnant Nun <142>
o A Fugitive Life <143>
o Life in Prison <144>

 Sonam Trashi <148>
o Carving Mani Stones After Grandfather\'s Death <148>
o Learning to Write Tibetan <149> 
•12•
o Herders\' Visits <153>
o Trade Between Herders and Farmers <156>
o Bandits <158>
o A Novice Monk <161>
o Trucks <163>
o A Mysterious Sound <163>
o Father\'s Double Identity <163>
o Hydrophobia <165>
o Rich and Poor <166>
o Journey to the Holy City <169>
o No Food After the Night Raid <184>
o Return Home <192>
o My Fugitive Life <195>
o Our Fugitive Life Ends and Father\'s Arrest <197>
o Starving to Death <201>
o Second Fugitive Life <202>
o Eating With Pigs <205>
o From Street Child to Thief <206>
o Marmot Hunting, Tractor Mechanic, and Becoming a
Father <212>

 Tsewang Chodron <220>
o The Airstrike <220>
o Mistaken for the Daughter of a Prominent Figure
<222>

 Tsering Sonam <226>
o Dukarkyab <226>
o Protecting the Naturally Arisen Mani Stone <232>

 Chimé <238>
o King Gesar\'s Failed Divination <238>
o Stealing Horses <240>
o The Battle in Dondrubling <242>

 Dorje Trashi <248>
o My Fugitive Life <248>
o Gakla People Kill a Chinese Man <254>
o Lhawa - the Spirit Medium <255>
o Embracing the Motherland <257>
o A Fruitless Harvest <259> 
•13•
o Robbery <260>
o Grandmother\'s Death <261>
o Mother\'s Death <261>
o The Hard Winter of 1960 <262>
o Disobeying a Teacher <265>
o Tortured <266>
o A Bowl of Roasted Barley <270>
o Killing a Goat <271>
o The Commune Discovers the Hidden Mutton <272>
o Trawa and I Injure Each Other\'s Feet <273>
o The Death of Ache <275>
o Sentence Assembly Meeting <280>
o Displacement <283>
o Becoming a Butcher <284>

 Rinam <286>
o Trade Between Herders and Farmers <286>
o Cloth in the Drito Area <288>
o Mother Gives Our Property to a Lama After Father\'s
Death <289>
o I Work for the Monastery <290>
o Wrongly Sent to a Concentration Camp <292>
o Transporting Barley for the Chinese <293>
o Stepfather is Released from Jail in 1970 <298>
o Hunting Musk Dear and an Explosion in the Village
<300>
o Team Leader <301>
o My Brothers\' Visits <304>

 Anam <306>
o Raised by Grandparents <306>
o My First Child <308>
o The Road to Chamdo <310>
o My Grandparents Drank Truck Oil <313>

 Trashi Jikme <318>
o The Harvest <318>
o Chinese Come with Beasts with Two Backs <320>
o Following the Drawu Chief <321>
o A Shell Strikes My Tent <322> 
•14•
o Mother is Arrested <325>
o I Become Mad <326>

 Donyak <328>
o Village Rebellion <328>
o Diarrhea <333>
Afterword <336>
Tibetan and Chinese Terms <340>