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A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary family portrait of three decades of Tibetan women whose lives are permanently changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan self-reliance, sending a mom and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey over the snowy Himalayas toward flexibility. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. Among the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she was raised in a remote mountain community where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life provided her all she needed: a oneness with nature and a feeling of the religious in every things. She hitched a monk, had two children, and resided in peacefulness and prayer. However, not for long. There was a declaring in Tibet: "Once the iron parrot flies and horses run on rims, the Tibetan people will be spread like ants over the face of the earth." The Chinese language invasion of Tibet in 1950 changed everything. When troops arrived at her pile monastery, destroying everything in their way, Kunsang and her family fled over the Himalayas and then spend years in Indian refugee camps. She lost both her spouse and her youngest child on that trip, but the future held an extraordinary turn of happenings that would permanently change her life - the entrance in the refugee camps of an cultured young Swiss man long fascinated with Tibet. Martin Brauen fell instantly deeply in love with Kunsang's young daughter, Sonam, eventually earning her heart and soul and side, and taking mom and daughter with him to Switzerland, where Yangzom was created. Many stories rest hidden before right person occurs to inform them. In rescuing the storyplot of her now 90-year-old inspirational grandmother and her mom, Yangzom Brauen has given us a e book full of love, courage, and triumph, as well as allowing us a uncommon and vivid glance of life in rural Tibet prior to the entrance of the Chinese language. Most of all, though, Across Many Mountains is a testament to three strong, motivated women who are connected by an unbreakable family connection.
