Name
Li, Jianglin, 1956- (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Lama Tupten Nima, 2010
Abstract
Oral history interview with Lama Tupten Nima (a.k.a. Bla ma Thub bstan nyi ma, Lama Thubten Nyima) regarding the first arrival of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Tibetan nomad areas in Amdo in the 1940s; the implementation of "Democratic reforms" in the late 1950s and killing of nomads; the interviewee's arrival in Lhasa in 1951 and escape to India in 1959, including four years in Buxar.
Collection Name
Jianglin Li Interviews with Tibetan Exiles
Subjects
History; Nomads; Dge-lugs-pa lamas; Amdo (Tibetan people); Refugees, Tibetan; Amdo (China : Region); Lhasa (China); India; Thub-bstan-nyi-ma, Bla-ma; ʼBras-spuṅs (Monastery)
Format
video recordings; oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
September 6, 2010
Physical Description
1 video file (52 minutes)
Note
Interviewed by Jianglin Li at Drepung Monastery (Mundgod, India) on September 6, 2010.
Note (Language)
Interview conducted in Tibetan through an interpreter, with Chinese summary translations for the interviewer.
Note (Biographical)
Bla ma Thub bstan nyi ma was born circa 1936 in the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo.
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
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-j6ad-bq26