Seven Years in Tibet
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Imprisoned in India by the British when WWII was confirmed, Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer escaped, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, he became the tutor and friend of the present Dalai Lama in this classic of adventure literature. Heinrich Harrer, already a legendary mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. An Austrian national, he was imprisoned by the British in India. By an nearly super-human effort, on his third attempt he succeeded in escaping from the internment camp and fled into Tibet. After a series of remarkable experiences in a country never crossed before by a Westerner, Harrer reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and bought a greater understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner had ever before achieved. He became the friend and tutor of the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was place to flight by the Red Chinese invasion. Made into a successful motion picture starring Brad Pitt, this is a stunning tale of incredible courage and self-reliance set against the backdrop of a mysterious and magnificent culture.Amazon.com Review
Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer’s 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his pleased sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land small visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The leader’s plain descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer’s departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.
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Heinrich Harrer was a devoted Nazi. He joined the Austrian chapter of the Nazi party in 1933 when it was still illegal to do so in Austria. In 1949 when the Dalai Lama was the absolute ruler of Tibet most Tibetans were illiterate. 5% of the people in Tibet were slaves and 90% were serfs. Tibet has been a part of China for 2,000 years.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was a well-written book by a very sincere leader. But it made me ill to read how dewy-eyed the leader described the Dalai Lama, who represented an eternal feudalism of nobility over the masses. The Dalai Lama stayed over at a “governer’s mansion”, and “no mortal will ever again inhabit” that mansion, that “any place the Dalai Lama stayed was automatically consecrated as a chapel”. When the “Chinese soldiers came”, the Dalai Lama “consulted with his State oracles”, and “chose to be King”. The Pope isn’t even like this. Sorry to say, the leader seems to take that in stride. Coming from a Nazi background, he probably felt very comfortable with this type of superioity by a master. I don’t. I give the writing an 8, but the context really deserves a 1. Naturally, after much help and pampering by the Dalai Lama, the leader took his friend the Dalai Lama’s view, which was incorrect. For one, while sheltered in the Lama’s domain, listening to the Lama’s words about how “China was invading Tibet”, the leader ought to have questioned this invasion view with some clear thinking. Namely: what reason is there for the Chinese to invade Tibet? There is no resource in Tibet at all. Tibet is a region of mountains, prone to severe snowstorms. What is there to gain? Being a pal of the Dalai Lama, delighting in seeing how the god king exerted power everywhere he went, consecrating mansions into chapels, declaring himself “king”, the leader failed to see that a modern China was trying to instill some changes to this feudal lord’s ways. While the leader writes with sincerety about how he loved this ancient system… As a reader, I find this type of nobility/god-king disturbing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The leader of this bookis the largest idiot in the world. He did not know the chinese history. Tibet has been one part of the China.Dalai Lama is not only a Tibet man,but also a chinese. The aothor would go to China again. He will find how many brilliant,gorgeous changes in Tibet. Tibet is more lovely than ever.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Has real culture and traditions in this book. A tale of human growth. Fantastic book
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Harrer’s book describes Tibet in a way that I have never heard any additional country described before. He tells how the Tibetan people are so devoted to their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The scenes he describes makes the reader wish that he/she could go to Tibet themselves, but sorry to say they cant because of the Chinese occupation. Harrer shows the beautifulness of the Tibetan land and the horror of the Chinese occupation. He shows that Tibet was a rare and gorgeous place that should be restored. Anyone who has suffered from repression, or anyone who just enjoys a excellent tale in all-purpose, will find this book incredible.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5