Memoirs of Keutsang Lama

Born into a peasant family in 1944, Jampel Yeshe was recognized as the reincarnation of Keutsang Rinpoche, a high-ranking Tibetan Lama, when he was barely two. After China took complete control of Tibet in 1959, he was branded as class enemy, arrested and imprisoned for twenty years in a characteristically communist Chinese-style kangaroo trail of the time. Now living in exile in Dharamsala, Rinpoche has penned his memoir as much a tribute to the courage and sacrifices of many who gave their lives for the cause of freedom as a testimony to the unspeakable bestiality that still characterize many aspects of Chinese rule over Tibet today. The book presents a frank account of a lama who at one time dared death in his resolute defiance of the prison authorities but later transformed himself into an apparently pro-China activist prisoner for reasons he feels most important to lay out in this book.