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Thursday, January 13, 2005
An Adventure to Lasha about a Paris Lady 一位巴黎女子的拉萨历险记

Somehow, I have to admit that my 2 trips to the Tibetan areas have affected me quite a lot and caused my great interests in digging out all kinds of Tibet-related movies and books. " An Adventure to Lasha about a Paris lady" is one of the books. Author, Madam David Neel, from all her life, without doubt she is a distinguished adventurer and traveler. Moreover, I presume she is one of the most outstanding women in 20th century. It is said she is the first Western lady been interviewed by 13th Dalai Lama.

The book is telling about her 5th adventure in Tibet, she and her adopted son (A true Tibetan Lama) have disguised themselves as religious beggars in order to enter the heart of Tibet, Lasha. Imaging on the highest plateau in the world, she has spent 8 months in walking to reach her destination. On the road, she encountered cold, hungry, and robberies, and most of all, the fear to be found out and the consequence is that she has to be driven off from the restricted area since at the beginning of 20th century Tibet is completely closed to any foreign expedition.

I had a little backpacker experience in Sichuan. On an average altitude of 4000m, to walk daily and daily with a heavy load is something really impossible. But she did. I don’t know how to describe such a tough woman. Even my recent visit in Lasha (the Capital of Tibet) has shown out some horrible clinic situations, no matter to think about those much poorer barren countryside about 80 years ago.

It took me several days to finish reading it, though it is only a 328-page book. As I intended to get more hidden meanings beneath her lines and sentences. What kind of belief has driven a Paris woman century ago to be in Tibet? I couldn’t understand, and probably is already beyond all my understanding.

Following are the movies I watched relating to Tibet:
Seven Years in Tibet
可可西里
色戒
德拉姆

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