Oral history interview with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, 2010
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- 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
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-b779-y928