Oral history interview with Lama Tupten Nima, 2010
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- 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
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-j6ad-bq26