A Tibetan in Taiwan
Bradley Winterton reviews a new book by Tsering Namgyal in today’s Taipei Times. Tsering Namgyal is a former reporter for the Taipei Times and now a freelance writer. Searching for Buddha’s Tooth is his first book.
The book is a collection of essays that focus on Tibetans in exile. As far as life in Taiwan goes he reports on the arrival of some Buddha relics in 1999 — one real and one apparently fake. He also comments on the changing attitudes of the KMT government towards Tibet that culminated in His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s first visit to Taiwan in 1997.
The Taiwanese and Tibetans have much in common. They should be closer in a spirit of friendship and solidarity in their struggle against the Chinese. Let’s hope this book helps bring them together a little bit more.