CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Remembering a Battered Buddha
One Kind of Emotion
Let me Write a Poem
On the Road
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
December
Panchen Lama
Scream
Witness to a Turn of Fate
Pallor of a Land of Snow
I Saw a Fish Flying in the Sky
Dergé
A Mala that Was Meant to Be
Embodiments
Way to Go
A Vow
Spinning Wheels
Lhasa Nights
Serves You Right!
Golden Season
Tsangyang Gyatso
Jotting Down Last Night’s Dream
Tibet’s Secret
Tears: A Final Song
When an Iron Bird Flew Past Shédrak Mountain
Strange Light
A Quick Note in the Small Hours
Dreamshadow
A Sheet of Paper Can Become a Knife
After a Few Years
Return to Lhasa
Showers of 1990
You Must Remember This
Parents
Roaming the Infinite Night
Nightfall on June 2nd
The Other Side
The Illness of Tibet
Come Home
Positioning
Of Mixed Race
The Past

Translator’s Notes

Geographical Note

Maps:

References