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How to make a life : a Tibetan refugee family and the Midwestern woman they adopted / Madeline Uraneck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uraneck, Madeline, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uraneck, Madeline.
- Tenzin Kalsang, 1962-.
- Tenzin Kalsang.
- Tibetans--Wisconsin--Madison--Biography.
- Tibetans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (170 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society, [2018]
- Summary:
- An immigration story of crossing cultural bridges and finding family.When Madeline Uraneck said hello to the Tibetan woman cleaning her office cubicle, she never imagined the moment would change her life.
- Contents:
- Stumbling into a family
- Tenzin's story
- Migmar's story
- Becoming friends
- Four children
- Becoming American
- Tenzin's brilliant idea
- Revelations in India
- Back to Bylakuppe
- Tangled traditions
- A curriculum for saving Tibet
- Double wedding
- Search for the middle way
- Lost temples and found suitcases
- The family next door
- Tibetan name meanings.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87020-856-X
- OCLC:
- 1021060598
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