Ebook: Asian Highland Perspectives, Volume 11: A MANG RDZONG TIBETAN LIFE མང་རྫོང་བོད་རིགས་ཤིག་གི་མི་ཚེ།

This book provides an autobiographical account of life on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Nagchukja's account takes the reader from his childhood in a resettled agro-pastoral community to his adulthood as a community grass-roots development worker.

EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE <2>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS <4>

LOCAL HISTORY <7>
BLUE MARKS UNDER MY EYELIDS <13>
SHEEP STUCK IN THE MUD <16>
HERDING <21>
RETRIEVING A GOAT <26>
A TOUGH HERDING DAY <29>
FIRST TRIP TO TSHAL RNGA RESERVOIR TOWN <32>
PACKING CAMELS <36>
MOTHER'S TEARS <40>
A NEW YEAR VISIT <43>
A HEAD INJURY <46>
COLLECTING FUEL <49>
A MISDIRECTED SLINGSHOT <51>
A SNAKE DIES <53>
A JOURNEY TO A LAB RTSE <56>
NIGHT VISITATION <60>
LIFE IN THE FARMING AREA <62>
STARTING SCHOOL <64>
INJURED FOREHEAD <67>
DRIVING THE FIRST TIME <70>
A REALIZATION AFTER A LONG TRIP <73>
SMOKING <76>
A TEACHER'S CRITICISM <80>
FLEEING <82>
A COMPLIMENT <85>
ANOTHER ESCAPE <87>
ENCOURAGEMENT <90>
STUDENTS FIGHT <93>
DANCE COMPETITION <95>
TIBETAN CALLIGRAPHY PRIZE <99>
SCHOOL FOOD <101>
A HERDING DAY <103>
SCHOOL IN MGO MANG TOWN <107>
REMORSE <110>
A FLOOD <113>
FATHER'S DRUNKEN ESCAPADE <116>
NIGHT POOL <120>
SGROL MA <122>
SHES RIG NOR GLING SCHOOL <125>
LEAVING FOR SCHOOL <128>
AN ENTRANCE EXAM <132>
A WEEKEND <136>
COLLECTING CATERPILLAR FUNGI <139>
A COSTLY ACCIDENT <143>
SCHOOL DISCIPLINARIANS <147>
A VACATION DATE <150>
DROPOUT <153>
ANOTHER SCHOOL <158>
BUYING BOOKS <161>
A KARMIC CHANCE <163>
STUDY IN ZI LING <165>
ENGLISH TRAINING PROGRAM <167>
CONCLUSION <169>

PROJECTS <171>
PHOTOGRAPHS <206>
• Bon skor Community Temple and ma Ni Hall <207>
• Ornaments <212>
• Homeland <217>
• Lab rtse <229>
• People <235>

NON-ENGLISH TERMS <247>
APPENDIX: MONGOLIAN TOPONYMS <255>