Book Review: A Tibetan Revolutionary

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 (The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye) by Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh

 University of California Press, 2004

By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya

This is a very inspiring and revealing account of a Tibetan, who in the early 1940s foresaw an urgent need for reforms in Tibet and safeguarding it from the enemies within and without the border. Goldstein and his team deserve applause for bringing alive this missing, untold, and revealing historic account of the life and the time of an unsung Tibetan revolutionary. The book clearly shows how Tibet has been betrayed and misruled by China since its occupation in the 1950’s. I...

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