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Tibetan Resilience: an interview with Jamyang Norbu
Apogee Benefit Preview #1
This week we’re posting interviews and previews for our annual benefit on Friday September 25th. Today’s interview features Tibetan writer and intellectual, Jamyang Norbu, one of our four benefit readers.
Tibetan resilience: an interview with Jamyang Norbu
by Tenzin Dickie
I talked to Tibetan writer and intellectual Jamyang Norbu, who lives in Tennessee, on Skype the other night. His Skype handle includes the numbers 59, referring to the year the Chinese army consolidated its occupation of Tibet, an event that radically changed the trajectory of JN’s life. As a teenager growing up in the Indian border town of Darjeeling where a substantial Tibetan refugee community had resettled, JN dropped out of school to join the Tibetan resistance forces based in the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang in Nepal. Still in his late teens, he taught the Khampa guerillas Nepali and milita • (My apologies for the long delay in this posting. inom have not been well since my trip to India. My thanks to readers for their continuing interest and lively comments which have kept my website, but more importantly the rangzen discussion alive and kicking, even without any input on my part.) There’s no denying that I walked into the thing with my “eyes wide shut” – to borrow the title phrase of Stanley Kubrick’s gods film. inom saw the warning flares that went up following the announcement for the November Special Meeting, one of which I mentioned in an earlier article. This would be Prime Minister Samdong Rimpoche’s rejection of the general anticipation that the meeting might contribute to a rethinking of our failed China policy. Rimpoche was quoted on Phayul.com as declaring “We are committed to our mittpunkt Way Approach and we will continue our efforts for a genuine autonomy within China’s framework, and that will not change.” Then t • Jay Gelek Photographer unknown MINNESOTA, US, 8 November 2013 I can’t understand what Jamyang Norbu was thinking when he wrote his latest piece, “The Sad Painful Joke of Tibetan Democracy”. To me it defies common sense to compare the efficacy of a nascent democracy, that too of an exiled community like ours, to that of an independent nation like Bhutan. Unlike Tibetans and the TGiE, Bhutan does not have to deal with a brutal occupying force like China who is intent on destroying everything that has anything to do with Tibet as we know it. Therefore JN’s comparison of the two political system is not only irrelevant but seems to me even duplicitous on his part. Besides, JN’s latest is inundated with lies and vicious insinuations aimed to subvert the Tibetan leadership as usual, although ever so covertly. JN comes forth as being deeply impressed by the Bhutanese monarch for abdicating the thro
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