01810nam a22002417a 4500 20210930152852.0 210930b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 812410638x AL eng 23 909 ARPF Claude Arpi 616 Fate of Tibet: When big insects eat small insects New Delhi Har Anand Publications Pvt Ltd 1999 432p. HB 22x14cm. 595.00 ₹ 595.00 History This book is an in-depth study of the origins of the fate of a nation. It begins from the time Buddhism was introduced in Tibet. It studies the evolution of the Priest-Patron Relationship with the Mongol Khans and later the Manchu Dynasty. It observes the effect of the appearance, in the eighteenth, of a new player on the stage: the British Empire with its 'large insect' expansionist policies and its rivalry with the Russian Empire. It looks at the conservative attitude of the Tibetan elergy that blocked all the efforts for modernization by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama who in his prophetic Testament, warned his people of the impeding avalanche: "and long and dark shall be the night". It analyses why Tibet was caught sleeping in its nirvanic isolation when liberation movements were shaking the world. In his unfolding drama, the year 1950 is perceived as a turning point--a Fateful Year--for Tibet as also for the newly free India who did not realize that in refusing to stand for Tibet's right for self-determination, she would forfeit her moral right to lead the decolonized world. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2667537?journalCode=tcj World History 617 Buddhism 618 ARPI (Claude) 619 ddc GF 216453 216453 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0.00 0 909 ARPF GF03238 2021-09-30 00:00:00 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2667537?journalCode=tcj 0.00 2013-03-24 GF