Name
Li, Jianglin, 1956- (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, 2010
Abstract
Oral history interview with Yeshi Dönden (Tib. Ye-shes-don-ldan, also Yeshi Dhonden and Yeshi Donden), who was born in Lhoka (Tib. Lho-kha ; Ch. Shannan, also Lhokha) and is personal doctor of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama; describes the traditional Tibetan medical education and system in Tibet prior to 1959, as well as his life circumstances and escape from Lhoka to India.
Collection Name
Jianglin Li Interviews with Tibetan Exiles
Subjects
Medicine, Tibetan; Physicians; Uprising of 1959 (Tibet Autonomous Region, China); Refugees, Tibetan; Tibet Autonomous Region (China); Shannan Diqu (China); India; Yeshi Dönden, 1929-
Format
video recordings; oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
November 23, 2010
Physical Description
2 video files (Part 1: 72 minutes; Part 2: 12 minutes)
Note
Interviewed by Jianglin Li in Dharamsala, India on November 23, 2010.
Note (Language)
Interview conducted in Tibetan through an interpreter, with English summary translations for the interviewer.
Note (Biographical)
Ye-shes-don-ldan (a.k.a Yeshi Dhonden and Yeshi Dönden) was born in Lho-kha (Ch. Shannan) and is personal doctor of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959, he escaped from Lho-kha via Bhutan to India together with more than one hundred others (especially children) from various parts of Tibet.
Note (Funding)
Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Language
English; Tibetan
Library Location
C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
8672337
Also In
Tibetan Studies Special Collections at Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-b779-y928