Seven Years in Tibet: Heinrich Harrer

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The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.”

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See Christopher Hale, Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Rac (...) Heinrich Harrer was a Nazi sergeant in the SS. After this was revealed by the German magazine Stern in 1997, he expressed regret for his involvement with the Nazi Party. [3] The second entry of Feng Xiaoning’s trilogy in 1999, Grief of the Yellow River( Huanghe juelian 黄河 (...) Ehrungen"[honours] (in German). Humboldt-Gesellschaft. 9 March 2016. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016.On we went over low-lying passes till we came to the source of the Brahmaputra, which the Tibetans call the Tsangpo.” Weinraub, Bernard (June 21, 1997). "Dalai Lama's Tutor, Portrayed by Brad Pitt, Wasn't Just Roving Through the Himalayas". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017 . Retrieved February 18, 2017. One may assume that this process allows Chinese to take distance from the story as well, and sugg (...) The lingua franca of Tibet is Lhasa dialect, though completely different and unintelligible to ma (...) Except for John Powers, scholars usually skim over the film as part of the propagandist productio (...)

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Lhasa is far from being so completely out of the world as has been represented. When Mr Harrer arrived he found in the shops the cosmetics of Elizabeth Arden and the newest gramophone records of Bing Crosby. Smart Tibetans danced the samba and foxtrot. Did not the British Ministry of Information during the war find that the reading matter which was received most gleefully in Lhasa was the Illustrated London News?

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Then there is mah-jongg. At one time this game was a universal passion. People were simply fascinated by it and played it day and night, forgetting everything else—official duties, housekeeping, the family. The stakes were often very high and everyone played—even the servants, who sometimes contrived to lose in a few hours what they had taken years to save. Finally the government found it too much of a good thing. They forbade the game, bought up all the mah-jongg sets, and condemned secret offenders to heavy fines and hard labor. And they brought it off! I would never have believed it, but though everyone moaned and hankered to play again, they respected the prohibition. After mah-jongg had been stopped, it became gradually evident how everything else had been neglected during the epidemic. On Saturdays—the day of rest—people now played chess or halma, or occupied themselves harmlessly with word games and puzzles.” See Michel Foucault’s theories on Power and Knowledge, Power/Knowledge, Colin Gordon, 1980. See also L'ordre du discours, Paris, Gallimard, 1971. See Schell, Virtual Tibet; and Martin Brauen, Dreamworld Tibet: Western Illusions, Weatherhill, 2004. On the political impact of such “dreamlike Tibet”, see Jamyang Norbu “Behing the Lost Horizon: De (...) Thomas Heberer “Old Tibet a hell on Earth? The myth of Tibet and Tibetans in Chinese art and prop (...)