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How to make a life : a Tibetan refugee family and the Midwestern woman they adopted / Madeline Uraneck.

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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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