The 13th Dalai Lama

February 01, 2024

Author: Gyanpian Gyamco, Wu Wei

Translated by: Zuo Yangyang, Zhao Xiaoxue

ISBN:  9787508544564

Press:China Intercontinental Press

Publication Date: 2010-4

 

Abstract

The long historical novel The 13th Dalai Lama——Gyangze Battle of 1904 was written in the early 1980s, a period when the Chinese Government had just started to put in place the reform and opening-up policy. It was published by the China Federation of Literary and Art Publishing Corporation in 1985.

 

About the author

GYANPIAN GYAMCO

Gyanpian Gyamco, of the Tibetan ethnic group, was born in Batang County of the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province in 1938. He joined the PLA in 1950 and he worked for the Ethnic Publishing House from 1956 to 1980.Beginning in 1981, he was transferred to work for the Ethnic Literature Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, engaging exclusively in the research into King Gesar. His works include A Probe Into King Gesar, Biography of King Gesar, Historical Fate of Gesar, Gesar and Tibetan Culture, On Gesar, Approaching Gesar, Galsang Medo, The 13th Dalai Lama.Master Panchen Erdeni, Snowland General Tan Guansan and Biography of Li Jue.

 

WU Wel

Wu Wei graduated from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with an MA degree in 1988. She engaged in the publishing business as an editor and manager for prolonged period of time, Her works include Biography of King Gesar, Figures in King Gesar, The 13th Dalai Lama and Tibetan Literature, She now works for the Information Office of the State Council.

 

Contents

 

Foreword of Second Edition

chapter I:Buddha of the Land of Snows

Chapter II:The Tent Shrouded in Shadow

Chapter III:A New Star Rises in the Northeast

Chapter IV:Qoini Makes a Divination

Chapter V:The New Qing High Commissioner for Tibet

Chapter VI:

Smoke Rings Signal Deep Emotion

Chapter VII:

Francis Young husband's Dream

Chapter VIII:

Fear and Worry

Chapter IX:

A Flock of Sheep at the Foot of the Mountain...

Chapter :

The Lute of a Buddhist Guardian

Chapter XI:

The Nanyi Monastery Meets With Catastrophe...

Chapter XII:

The Barkor Street Corner

Chapter XIII:

The Silence of Norbu Lingka

Chapter XIV:

Ebullient Lhasa

chapter VI:

Mysterious Mongolian Lamas

Chapter XVI:

The Small Monastery on the Mountain

Chapter XVII:

By the Holy Lake

Chapter XVIII:

Cheerful Laughter under the Walls of the Ancient Castle

Chapter XIX:

Stranded in Parlha Village

Chapter XX:

Towering Copper Tower

Chapter XXI:

The God of Fire Shows His Power

Chapter XXII:

A Fearful Place

Chapter XXIII:

The Austere Yamun Guarded by Stone Lions

Chapter XXIV:

Water Is as Precious as Blood

Chapter XXVL:

He Belongs to This Land

Chapter XXVI:

The Moment of Truth

Chapter XXVII:

Eternal Starlight