Undefeated: Confessions of a Tibetan Warrior - Thondup, Paljor
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"A personal memoir by Paljor Thondup, a native-born "Khampa"-an inhabitant of Kham, a large southeastern region of Tibet; an account of his childhood and youth shared with his friend Dupa, and the journey they and their two families take across the east-west length of Tibet, while engaging in combat as guerrilla fighters against occupying Chinese forces in the late '50s and early '60s, and their escape to the west, ultimately to Nepal. The latter part of the book deals with the growth of the two friends into businessmen in Nepal and then founders of a cultural center for Tibetans ("Project…mehr

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"A personal memoir by Paljor Thondup, a native-born "Khampa"-an inhabitant of Kham, a large southeastern region of Tibet; an account of his childhood and youth shared with his friend Dupa, and the journey they and their two families take across the east-west length of Tibet, while engaging in combat as guerrilla fighters against occupying Chinese forces in the late '50s and early '60s, and their escape to the west, ultimately to Nepal. The latter part of the book deals with the growth of the two friends into businessmen in Nepal and then founders of a cultural center for Tibetans ("Project Tibet") in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where their efforts are appreciated and blessed by a visit from the Dalai Lama. The two old friends return to Tibet to revisit their birthplace and bring in funding for Tibet-language schools for young Tibetans-now second-class citizens under the Chinese-before the occupation government discovers their activities and expels them from Tibet."--
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Paljor Thondup was a Tibetan freedom fighter in the battle against the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the early 1950s. Thondup escaped to Nepal with other Tibetan refugees in 1959 once the Dalai Lama had been forced to flee Tibet into exile in India. After losing his family in a treacherous ambush, though compelled by tribal custom to seek revenge even at the cost of his life, Thondup instead was inspired by his dying father and later by the Dalai Lama to respond by continuing to help the Tibetan cause in a positive way, defeating hatred with compassion. Thondup eventually relocated to New Mexico and became a successful businessman. In 1980, he founded Project Tibet, which rendered humanitarian and educational relief to Tibetan communities inside Tibet as well as to refugees in India and Nepal. Thondup established the Tibetan Association of Santa Fe and served on the Board of Directors of the International Campaign for Tibet.