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Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
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9789381626177
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Publisher
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Tranquebar
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Subject
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History
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Paperback
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Pages
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372
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Year
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2012
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Twenty years after her first encounter with Tibet, Canyon Sam re-visits the place she loves. Even as she disembarks Chinas infamous Sky Train, the author confronts a series of changes all seemingly irrevocable the devastation of Lhasas once-pristine landscape; the corrosion of cultural artefacts; the slow death of a vibrant civilization. In an attempt to acknowledge the past, the Chinese- American writer documents her spiritual home by recording the voices of four Tibetan women a visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, a child bride. Gracefully connecting these womens poignant histories to larger cultural, political and spiritual themes, Canyon Sam finds wisdom and wholeness, as she comes to grips with the future. In a style that is uncompromisingly honest, yet tender and lyrical, Sky Train is a love-song to The Place of the Gods.
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Author Biography
Canyon Sam is a writer, performance artist, and activist from San Francisco. She has published articles, plays, and stories in Shambhala Sun, Seattle Review, and San Jose Mercury News, for Agence France Presse, and in numerous feminist and Buddhist anthologies. Canyon Sam is also the writer/performer of nationally acclaimed solo theater pieces that explore contemporary issues through the lens of Buddhist practice. The Dissident, her show about doing human rights work with a Buddhist nun in Tibet, toured the United States and Canada. Canyon Sam was a grassroots activist for Tibetan independence in the mid 1980s through early 1990s and funded the Tibetan Nuns Project in its first years through slide shows of images from her year away. In 1989, at the request of Congressman Tom Lantos, she addressed a congressional subcommittee hearing on Tienanmen Square, linking the event with human rights abuses in Tibet. Ms Sam holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, and has taught at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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