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English in Tibet, Tibet in English

Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora

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  • © 2001

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  1. Laurie Hovell McMillin
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. English in Tibet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Way to Epiphany

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      Pages 3-6

    3. The First One There: Bogle’s Journey

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 7-37

    4. In One Ear: Turner in Tibet

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 39-53

    5. Manning’s Sentimental Journey

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 55-69

    6. Barbarian Translations and Impure Forms: Hodgson, Waddell, Blavatsky

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      Pages 71-78

    7. Kipling’s Kim, Lamas, and Epiphanies

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 79-88

    8. Younghusband: Arrivals and Departures

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 89-110

  3. Tibet in English

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. New Age Namtars: Tibetan Autobiographies in English

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 113-136

    3. Siblings of the Dalai Lama: Jetsun Pema and Thubten Jigme Norbu

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 137-151

    4. Monks’ Tales: Geshe Rabten and Lobsang Gyatso

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 153-171

    5. The Double Life of the Dalai Lama

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      Pages 173-181

    6. Reincarnate Lamas: Chögyam Trungpa and Chagdud Tulku

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 183-195

    7. Tibetan Women in the Western Buddhist Lineage: Rinchen Dolma Taring and Dorje Yudon Yuthok

      • Laurie Hovell McMillin
      Pages 197-208

    8. Political Prisoners: Palden Gyatso and Ama Adhe

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      Pages 209-222

    9. Resisting Exile: Tashi Tsering

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      Pages 223-232

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 235-260
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About this book

This book explores two kinds of self-presentation in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora: that of British writers in their travel texts to Tibet from 1774 to 1910 and that of Tibetans in recent autobiographies in English. McMillin contends that Tibet and the Anglophone West have had a long, complex, and convoluted relationship that can be explored, in part, through analysis of English language texts. The first part of the book explores how a myth of epiphany in Tibet comes to dominate English texts of travel in Tibet, while the second part considers how Tibetan autobiographers writing in English have responded and resisted Western images of them.

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English in Tibet, Tibet in English is the first work to examine as literature some of the most influential English-language works on Tibet. - Donald Lopez, University of Michigan

About the author

LAURIE HOVELL MCMILLIN teaches writing at Oberlin College. She has travelled among Tibetan communities since 1982.

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