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Title: Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun by Ani Pachen, Adelaide Donnelley, Dalai Lama, Richard Gere, Donnelly Adelaide ISBN: 1-56836-323-0 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior
Comment: Ani Pachen & Adelaide Donnelly (2000), Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior-Nun, New York: Kodansha International, pp 293. Foreword by the Dalai Lama and preface by Richard Gere.
Some people live lives of such difficulty and suffering that it is hard to imagine how they carry on. Other people live lives in which they inflict so much suffering and difficulty that it is hard to imagine how they carry on. This book is a story of both kinds of lives.
It is primarily the story of Ani Pachen: a Tibetan woman born to a privileged life who lost everything when the Chinese invaded, became a resistance leader, was captured, tortured and endured 21 years of horrific imprisonment. When finally released she took part in protest movements before fleeing to India where she became a nun.
It is also a larger story of the Tibetan people and their Chinese oppressors. Invaded, oppressed, mistreated and murdered, the Tibetan people have endured for almost half a century their own holocaust in which 1 million of their 6 million people have been killed. This book puts a personal face on their suffering. As such it is a moving monument to the courage and forbearance of a person and a people. A moving foreword by the Dalai Lama and an equally moving preface by Richard Gere add further perspectives to the book. As Richard Gere concludes "May this book help to dispel the darkness of this darkest night of Tibetan history and be of benefit to all beings everywhere. May the hearts of our Chinese brothers and sisters be opened and may they quickly come to their senses."
Rating: 5
Summary: A Book of Great Courage and Magesty
Comment: The story of Ani Pachen resonates with the kind of courage and spiritual certainty that perhaps very few of us our capable, but all of us admire. In contrast to her indomitable strength, the Chinese occupation of Tibet takes on outrageous dimensions -- an ugliness and brutality hard to bear. For one nine-month period during her twenty-one years of imprisonment, Ani Pachen endured a dark, earthen cell slightly larger than her body where she spent her time praying, accomplishing one hundred thousand prostrations devoted to the well-being of all. When released by the Chinese, she took up the cause of a free Tibet in Lhasa, demonstrating against the torture and murder of her people and country, putting herself in the greatest possible peril. Ani Pachen has lived at the very depths of the soul and sorrow of Tibet and emerged triumphant, a woman of compassion and beauty who will inspire all who read her magnificent story.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reality-check - read this book
Comment: Need a reality check? Feeling sorry for your life? Then read Sorrow Mountain and experience life at it's best and worst. It will lift one out of ordinary existence into the realm of compassion and tolerance. One will begin to experience the essence of the Tibetan region and the mystical struggles of one held prisoner by torturous bandits who tried to steal the Heart of Compassion and failed. Turn off the tv "reality" shows and experience the real-ness of Ani Pachen and her Sorrow Mountain. I guarantee it will become your Sorrow Mountain too.
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Title: The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival by Adhe Tapontsang, Joy Blakeslee, Ama Adhe, Dalai Lama ISBN: 0861711491 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet by Mary Craig ISBN: 1582431027 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Sky Burial: An Eyewitness Account of China's Brutal Crackdown in Tibet by Blake Kerr ISBN: 1559390808 Publisher: Snow Lion Pubns Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: My Land and My People : The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet by The Dalai Lama ISBN: 0446674214 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya, Dalai Lama, Palden ISBN: 0802135749 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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