Young Tashi, however, is not unhappy with this situation, even if his mother is desperate: it is in fact the opportunity for him to learn to read and write, his dearest wish.
[5] The young dancer makes his way by becoming the drombo (Wylie: mgron po, literally the 'guest'),[6][7] that is to say, euphemistically, the “passive homosexual companion"[8] and according to Goldstein "sex toy"[9][10] by Wangdu, a monk with interpersonal skills who treats him gently and promotes his intellectual training.
[6] (according to Jean-Pierre Barou and Sylvie Crossman, these warrior-monks could go so far as to fight among themselves to possess the favors of a cute)[11] Tashi is surprised that such behavior can be tolerated in monasteries: "When I spoke about 'dob-dob' to other monks and monastic leaders, they shrugged their shoulders and simply said that it was the course of things".
[6] During his interview, Tashi Tsering told him that in hindsight, he saw the "sexual practices of ancient Tibet, as a matter of habits and conventions, the accepted social consequence of people exploiting the loopholes of religious rules.".
As this marriage could not take place without the permission of the head of Gadrugba, Tashi must, to be untied, undergo twenty-five blows of the whip.
[14] Of the Chinese troops present in Lhasa in 1952, he noted the efficiency and autonomy, declaring that the soldiers would not even have borrowed a needle from the inhabitants.
[21][22] He worked closely with exiled Tibetan resistance leaders, in particular an older brother of 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Gyalo Thondup (" Gyalola as we called him"),[23] with whom he befriended[when?].
[24] He assists him in welcoming the Tibetan refugees, without knowing that Gyalo Thondup is [[financed by the CIA]] and that he has significant financial resources.
[26] Ultimately, the accounts recorded by him, along with those from other refugee camps, would be presented by the International Commission of Jurists in its 1960 report accusing China of atrocities.
[27] In 1959, he was charged by his friend Gyalo Thondrup with taking care of part of the Dalai Lama's treasure which had been secured in 1950 in the reserves of Tashi Namgyal, maharaja of the Sikkim.
While the gold is sent by cargo plane to Calcutta, where it is entrusted to banks, the silver is kept with a trusted Tibetan trader, where Tashi must keep it for almost a month before participating in its melting into ingots.
Before leaving, he meets the 14th Dalai Lama, who invites him to "be a good Tibetan", to "study seriously" and to "put his education at the service of his people and his country".
[30] He studied on the East Coast then in Seattle in State of Washington: his historical readings made him establish a parallel between the Western Middle Ages and the Tibetan society he came from.
[14] He accepts Spartan conditions and indoctrination, because he sincerely believes in the merits of communism and hopes that his training will allow him to return to Tibet to teach.
Convinced that Tibet can only evolve towards a modern society based on egalitarian socialist principles by collaborating with the Chinese, Tashi Tsering becomes red guard.
The conditions of detention and the food are improving: each cell is lit by a light bulb, the walls and floor are concrete and dry, he is entitled to three meals a day, butter tea, tsampa, sometimes a little meat.
[9] During his long absence, his brother starved to death in prison, while his parents barely managed to survive in a half-destroyed monastery.
[17] Taking advantage of the relaxation of the regime after Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1977, he went to Beijing to demand, and obtain, his complete rehabilitation.
With the Open Door economic policy of Deng Xiaoping, businessmen and tourists arrived in Lhasa, creating a need for English-speaking guides.
Success was achieved, he made significant profits which he decided to use to open schools in his region of origin where there was no educational structure.
Building on this success, and to finance the opening of other schools in the canton of Namling, he set up a business in carpets and handicraft items which prospered thanks to foreign visitors.
Tashi ardently wished that the Dalai Lama would once again unify his people, end the government in exile and return to Tibet.
In 2007, he spoke to the deputies of the autonomous region of Tibet to protest the too little place given to the Tibetan language in higher education and in the administration.
[42] In his opinion, schools in Tibet should teach all subjects, including modern science and technology, in Tibetan, to preserve the language.
"A heterosexual, he escaped by becoming a drombo, or homosexual passive partner and sex-toy, for a well connected monk .The central figure of this biography is a Tibetan who left Tibet in the late 1950s ... becoming a homosexual sex-toy for a well connected monk.These warriors [the dobdo monks] could go so far as to fight among themselves to possess the favors of a cute.I wondered to myself how monasteries could allow such thugs to wear the holy robes of the Lord Buddha.
They had simply been part of the general panic that gripped the country, and their stories were of the sufferings they had incurred in the journey through the mountains, not at the hands of the Chinese.We put the materials we were translating together with similar eyewitness accounts from other refugee camps, and eventually they were presented to the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1960.
[...] When I became involved, the gold and silver were being hand-loaded onto trucks in Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, and driven south to Siliguri, the location of the nearest airstrip.
It was my responsibility to stand guard over it, and for nearly a month I stood sentinel in a silent room full of coins and odd pieces of silver.
"Instead he saw himself as a representative of the common people who wanted to help create a new, modern Tibet.In spite of the extremely small cells, the physical conditions here were better than those of any of the prisons I had known in China.
There were three meals a day here, and we got butter tea, tsamba, and sometimes even meat, although not in large quantities [...] Compared to what I'd been experiencing, these conditions amounted almost to luxury [... ] For the first time since I had been imprisoned I was given access to newspapers – both Tibetan and ChineseToday, in addition to his charity, he runs a successful carpet business and sells Tibetan books abroad.founder of around fifty primary schools.As soon as his money was put in place, the Bureau of Education of the Namling County initiated specific procedures for the construction including distributing funds, selecting the locations of schools and fixing the size of the schools.