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Yak Girl

Name: Yak Girl
Author: Dorje Dolma

Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal

Dorje Dolma,

335 pages
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Yak Girl

Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal

Dorje Dolma,

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"A rare and fascinating testimony... of a little girl who made an incredible trip from inner Dolpo to America—and from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century." —Eric Valli, director of the Oscar nominated film, Himalaya The absorbing memoir of a spirited girl in a remote, undeveloped region of Nepal near the border of Tibet, a place made known to the world in Peter Matthiesen's The Snow Leopard. Life above 13, 000 feet in northern Dolpo was one of constant risk and harsh survival. In the 1980s, Dolpo had no running water, electricity, motor vehicles, phones, school, or doctors, other than the local lamas, trained in the use of herbs and prayer. Covering her first ten years, the story takes Dorje from her primitive mountain village to the bewildering city of Kathmandu, and finally to a new home in America, where she receives life-saving surgery. With humor, soul, and insightful detail, Dorje gives us vividly told vignettes of daily life and the practice of centuries-old Tibetan traditions. She details the heartbreaking trials, natural splendors, and familial joys of growing up in this mysterious, faraway part of the world with its vanishing culture due to increased tourism. This wonderful and surprising tale of survival, loss, and self-reflection offers us entry to this difficult, yet magical, place. Above all, this is the inspiring story of an indomitable spirit conquering all obstacles, a tale of a girl with a disability on her way to becoming a dynamic woman in a new world.

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Publisher

Sentient Publications

Year

2018

ISBN

9781591812890

Topic

Sciences sociales

Subtopic

Biographies de sciences sociales

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
My Family Tree
Foreword
1. A Small Girl in Dolpo
2. Playmates
3. Parents
4. Siblings
5. Grandparents
6. Shomo Dechen
7. Daily Life in Dolpo
8. Shomo Deye Lhamo and Summers in Shey
9. Ani Dawa Lhamo and Ahyang Karma Tsering’s Wedding
10. Shomo Deye Lhamo’s Illness
11. The Month-Long Journey from Dolpo to Kathmandu
12. Life in Kathmandu
13. Searching for Doctors to Save Me
14. Happy Home Boarding School
15. Journey to America
Epilogue
Glossary
Photo Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Author