This is the first book to present the stories and portraits of ordinary Tibetan women and men in exile, in their own words. It includes gorgeous photographs of the lands they embraced in Ladakh, where they fled after the Chinese annexed Tibet in 1959.
To meet the people and make these photographs, the Johnsons traveled throughout Ladakh, visiting many villages, and interviewing dozens of people. Most of them had to leave everything behind when they fled: family, friends, and their most precious possessions: their animals, with whom they had a unique and symbiotic relationship.
Yet, as Dr. Johnson reveals in his photographs and stories, these refugees are resilient, wise, and hopeful. They have made their tragedy a source of strength, along with their unwavering devotion to their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and to their Buddhist practice, which continues to sustain them.
In a world full of exiles, more than 150,000 of which are Tibetan, this book is not only of historical significance, it is timely. It puts a human face on the increasingly complex problem of people being forcibly displaced from their homelands. These remarkable individuals show us the meaning of never giving up, and that everyone deserves compassion, for without it, the future of humanity stands in peril.
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Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
72 black-and-white illustrations, including 61 duotone photographs by the author
Maße
Höhe: 312 mm
Breite: 293 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-960521-06-4 (9781960521064)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dr. Eugene H. Johnson was Professor of Comparative Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman from 2000 until his retirement in 2024. Prior to that appointment, he worked as a National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Scientist at the Yale University Medical School. He has mentored numerous students and research scientists from many parts of the world, written more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and served as a reviewer and editor for many medical journals worldwide. A passionate photographer since 1974, he is the author of A Photographic Pilgrimage, Something's Fishy (Unspoken Dialogues, 2004) and Reflections from the Not So Distant Past in Oman, a two-volume series commissioned by the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman. His photographic work has been featured in many notable magazines, including Black and White Photography, Docubooks, Estado de Sao Paulo, Food and Travel, Iris Foto, Lenswork, and Whimsical Magazine, and in books such as Looking at Images, by Brooks Jensen, the long-time editor of Lenswork. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Royal Court of the Sultanate of Oman, Nairobi National Museum in Kenya, Museum of Art in Sao Paulo, Brazilian American Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., Banco do Brasilia in Brazil, Al-Bustan Palace in Oman, and has been showcased in Brazil, Germany, India, Kazakhstan and Kenya. In 2004, the United States Embassy in the Sultanate of Oman hosted a thirty-year retrospective of his works that was co-sponsored by seventeen international corporations.
