Oral history interview with Sonam Gyatso, 2010
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- Name
- Li, Jianglin, 1956- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Sonam Gyatso, 2010
- Abstract
- Oral history interview with Sonam Gyatso (a.k.a. Bsod nams rgya mtsho, Sobha Gyamtso, Bsod bha), an 86-year old Amdo Tibetan monk (abbot?) who briefly describes growing up in a rural village (Gro tshang? or Chu bzang?) and then in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Amdo; his relocation to Lhasa; role of the Reting (Tib. Rwa sgreng) regent; the arming of monks in March 1959 at the Norbulingka; and the interviewee's escape to India in April 1959, with brief stay in Buxar.
- Collection Name
- Jianglin Li Interviews with Tibetan Exiles
- Subjects
- History; Uprising of 1959 (Tibet Autonomous Region, China); Dge-lugs-pa lamas; Amdo (Tibetan people); Refugees, Tibetan; Amdo (China : Region); Lhasa (China); Buxar (India : District); Bsod-nams-rgya-mtsho, Mkhan-chung; ʼBras-spuṅs (Monastery)
- Format
- video recordings; oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- September 2010
- Physical Description
- 1 video file (23 minutes)
- Note
- Interviewed by Jianglin Li at Drepung Monastery (Mundgod, India) in September 2010.
- Note (Language)
- Interview conducted in Tibetan through an interpreter, with Chinese summary translations for the interviewer.
- Note (Biographical)
- Mkhan-chung Bsod-nams-rgya-mtsho was born circa 1924 in a rural village in Amdo, Tibet.
- Note (Funding)
- Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
- Language
- Tibetan; Chinese
- 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-xykb-4m84