From a Mountain In Tibet by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

Lama Yeshe didnt see a car until he was fifteen years old. In his quiet village he and other children ran through fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. The arrival of Chinese army cars in 1959 changed everything. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising he escaped to India through the Himalayas as a refugee. One of only 13 survivors out of 300 travellers he spent the next few years in America experiencing the excesses of the Woodstock generation Hardback