Mystical Mountains

In 1950 the independent nation of Tibet was invaded and occupied by the People's Republic of China. Its people were decimated, their resources exploited, their culture destroyed, and their religion forbidden. In 1959 Tibetans rose up in a rebellion, put down harshly by the People's Liberation Army. Hundreds of thousands were either massacred or imprisoned and enslaved. A great exodus of Tibetans fled into exile, including their own highest leader, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Today, the...
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In 1950 the independent nation of Tibet was invaded and occupied by the People's Republic of China. Its people were decimated, their resources exploited, their culture destroyed, and their religion forbidden. In 1959 Tibetans rose up in a rebellion, put down harshly by the People's Liberation Army. Hundreds of thousands were either massacred or imprisoned and enslaved. A great exodus of Tibetans fled into exile, including their own highest leader, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Today, the cultural genocide in Tibet is ongoing, the population transfer to Tibet of millions of Chinese colonists is funded and encouraged by the Chinese government, and the flow of Tibetans into exile continues.What must it be like to be a Tibetan living in occupied Tibet? How does the escape from tyranny, leaving friends and family members behind, inform the life and thought of those Tibetan exiles who have found freedom--either just across the Himalayan range dividing Tibet from India, or in the wider world?This book of poetry by Meenakshi Negi speaks prophetically to the Chinese occupiers, warning them of the grave consequences of their oppression and predicting its ultimate failure. It also encourages the long-suffering people of Tibet, honoring their bravery and persistence, congratulating them for their extraordinary spiritual resilience, and celebrating the glory of Tibet's great mountain of devotion to life, and its great gifts of inner sciences and arts that further human spiritual evolution.