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Across many mountains by yangzom brauen5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() It is an extraordinary story of determination, love and endurance. In Across Many Mountains Sonam's daughter, Yangzom, born in safety in Switzerland, has written the story of her inspirational mother and grandmother's fight for survival, and their lives in exile. Across many mountains the extraordinary story of three generations of women in tibet yangzom brauen kusang never thought she would leave tibet growing up in a. One of the countrys youngest Buddhist nuns, she married a monk, had two children, and lived in peace and prayer until the Chinese invasion in 1950. Yangzom Brauen - Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. Kusang's husband and her younger child died, but somehow Kusang and her daughter Sonam survived. Get this from a library Across many mountains : a Tibetan familys epic journey from oppression to freedom. It took a month to reach India, where they were then passed from one refugee camp to another, all the while fighting hunger and disease. The family were forced to flee across the Himalayas in the depths of winter, battling cold, fear, starvation and exhaustion. Thousands were tortured, prison camps were set up and Kusang's monastery was destroyed. But then the Chinese army invaded, and their peaceful lives were destroyed forever. ![]() ![]() Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a monk and gave birth to two children. Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. ![]()
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