There are few accounts of individuals in traditional Tibet and what we read here may conflict with our notions about both the country and Buddhism. She has given an unvarnished, affectionate picture of Kunsang, a traditional Tibetan woman born long before the Chinese occupation in 1950. We owe Yangzom, who in addition to her career in the theatre was once president of the European Tibetan Youth Congress, much gratitude. Yangzom is also an actress: as part of her ‘performance art’ in a Berne drama school she placed over fifty snails on her naked body so that they looked like a dress. This book presents three generations of women: Kunsang, a married Tibetan nun now in her nineties who never let anyone see her unclothed Sonam, her daughter, who was carried out of Tibet on Kunsang’s back when she was six, married a Swiss in India and now lives in New York and Yangzom, Kunsang’s half-Tibetan, half-Swiss granddaughter and the author of this book. Asia Society presents a talk by Yangzom Brauen on her new book, a harrowing yet inspirational story of her grandmother and mothers life in Tibet and their.
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