02007nam a22002537a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200180008810000210010624500550012726000520018230000240023436500240025850000120028252011730029465000230146765100180149070000230150894200120153199900190154395201910156220210930152852.0210930b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a812410638x  cAL  aeng  223a909bARPF  aClaude Arpi9616  aFate of Tibet:bWhen big insects eat small insects  aNew DelhibHar Anand Publications Pvt Ltdc1999  a432p.bHBc22x14cm.  b595.00c₹d595.00  aHistory  aThis 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.uhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2667537?journalCode=tcj  aWorld History9617  aBuddhism9618  aARPI (Claude)9619  2ddccGF  c216453d216453  00102ddc40708HISaALbALd2013-03-24g0.00l0o909 ARPFpGF03238r2021-09-30 00:00:00uhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2667537?journalCode=tcjv0.00w2013-03-24yGF