Oral history interview with Jampa Danda, 2009
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- Name
- Li, Jianglin, 1956- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Jampa Danda, 2009
- Abstract
- Oral history interview with Tibetan refugee and monk Jampa Tendar (Tib. Jam pa bstan dar, also Jampa Danda); regarding events in Lhasa in March 1959, including the mass influx of Tibetans into the Norbulingka, his effort to protect the Jokhang Temple during the fighting, subsequent arrest and imprisonment.
- Collection Name
- Jianglin Li Interviews with Tibetan Exiles
- Subjects
- History; Uprising of 1959 (Tibet Autonomous Region, China); Monks; Refugees, Tibetan; Lhasa (China); India; Byams-pa-bstan-dar; Nor-bu-gliṅ-ga (Palace : Lhasa, China); Gtsug-lag-khang (Lhasa, China)
- Format
- video recordings; oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- October 12, 2009
- Physical Description
- 2 video files (Part 1: 62 minutes; Part 2: 32 minutes)
- Note
- Interviewed by Jianglin Li in the reception room of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, in Dharamsala, India, on October 12, 2009.
- Note (Language)
- Interview conducted in Tibetan through an interpreter, with Chinese summary translations for the interviewer.
- Note (Biographical)
- Jampa Danda (Tib. Byams-pa-bstan-dar?) was a monk official in 1959 and a participant in the March 1959 uprising. He was one of the young officials guarding the front gate when people laid siege to the Norbulingka. When the Battle of Lhasa started, he went to the Jokhang Temple to protect it, but was arrested there and jailed for many years.
- Note (Funding)
- Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
- Language
- Tibetan; Chinese
- Library Location
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 8672337
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-5296-xa90