Falling Through The Roof

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Back of The Book A group of Delhi University students decide to from the Tibetan Communist Party (TCP), with Tashi, the new chairman of the TCP, planning to liberate is beloved Tibet with the some weapons which caused its downfall. Hits plans, however, do not fall in line with those of Drubchen Rinpoche who believes him to be the reincarnation of Drubtop Rinpoche. His first reincarnation, according to the Lama, invested the Word, the Tibetan alphabet an a hill in Kashmir, some fourteen hundred years ago. According to the Lama, the invention of the Tibetan Word enabled the Tibetan people to take in the whole of the wisdom of ancient India.

Who will succeed in claming Tashi’s beleaguered soul? The modern world that intruded into Tibet in the form of communism or the traditional world of Tibet as epitomised in the person of the Lama?

Thubten Samphel lives and works in Dharamsala.

‘At last, the book on the Tibetan exile experience that so many of us have been waiting for! Thubten Samphel known the Tibetan situation as closely and informedly as almost anyone; and yet he also feels the frustrations and restlessness of his fellow refugees with uncommon conviction and sympathy. His debut novel mixes passion with intelligence, great knowledge with real pathos, and allows us, for the first time in fictional form, to feel the predicament of displaced Tibet from within. Now we can begin to act accordingly.’

Contents

	Acknowledgements	ix
	The Delhi Days
	Prologue: Majnu Ka Tilla	3
	Changistan	5
	Tibet Memories	11
	Different Dreams, Different Tibets	24
	The Old China Hand and the Avenging Golok	35
	Farewell to All That	43
	Hint of Inheritance	53
	The Lama’s Stories
	Lost Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle	65
	The First Literate Tibetan and His Mastery of the World	68
	The Death of the Nineteenth Drubtop and Beijing Flies	77
	The Ancestors of the One-Eyed Golok	82
	The Protest Demonstration Generation
	Plans for Demonstration	121
	Tashi and Metok	145
	On The Silk Road To Shambala
	In Search of a Cave in Srinagar	157
	Professor Bamzali’s Tibetan Theories	184
	Shambala Dreams	197
	The Ladakh Interlude	202
	The Enthronement of the Twentieth Drubtop Rinpoche	223
	Mutton Leg in Bodh Gaya	238
	Dharamsala
	Homecoming	249
	The Lama Visits Dharamsala	259
	The Year of Protests and Other Years	277
	Glossary	306