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Tibet, my dream : thirteen life paths

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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 137 pages
Poids : 183 g
Dimensions : 14cm X 22cm
ISBN : 978-2-343-18638-2
EAN : 9782343186382

Tibet, my dream

thirteen life paths


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Tibet, my dream

In June 2014, in AET-Paris, Gilbert Leroy received Tenzin Tsundue, tibetan activist-patriot. He wrote « Kora, stories and poems ». Among other subject matters, they talked a lot about self-immolations. Today, China has initiated gigantic projects in Tibet : unbridled exploitations, nuclear tests and storing of radioactive waste, countless checkpoints, high-voltage lines, railways, tunnels, bridges, highways and a very problematic project : the diversion of the Brahmaputra river towards China. And to further make Tibet people suffocated, a non-stop surveillance with video cameras and digital controls, kilometers of building, end of nomadism... Situation has become sounbearable that, since 2010, too many Tibetans choose an extreme form of resistance to call for help : self-immolation.

After a long silence, Tenzin Tsundue said « There are other ways to resist than self-immolation ». That's how I got this idea to give voice to Tibetans students, offering them an avenue to express themselves on the theme : « Tibet, my dream ». On this topic, the AET, in relation with the ministry of education of the Tibetan Government in Exile, organized during the year 2015, a competition opened to all the 2nd year Tibetans students. We received 36 pieces. We rewarded 20 of them by a scholarship. 13 of these are published here. During the year 2016, Gilbert Leroy tried to meet most of these students in India to get a better understanding of their lives, 13 life trajectories.

Biographie

In 1973, Gilbert Leroy discovered Nepal and decided to stay a year there in « the land of Sherpas » and work on his first film. He is also amongst the first foreigners to reach Ladakh & Zanskar, which was till then closed off to outsiders. This will take him, in 1980 from Zanksar to the borders of Tibet. In discovering Tibetan culture convinces him the necessity of coming to the help of Tibetan people. This will result in his commitment with the association « Aide à l'enfance tibétaine ». When in 1985, China opens the door of Tibet, he rushes there. This will be followed by two films made in Tibet, numerous shirt films and publications on the high valleys of the Himalaya and on the Indian continent.

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