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Oral history interview of Taring Rinchen Drolma / interviewed by Gelek Rimpoche. Part 1, 1982, India
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Title

  • Oral history interview of Taring Rinchen Drolma

Summary

  • Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she discusses the events surrounding the murder of her father and brother and the role of Dasang Dramdrü [Tib. zla bzang dgra 'dul] in the 1911-13 period and his coming to the Tsarong family. The interviewee also discusses how she came to go to school in Indian and about the history of the Tsarong family during this period.

Names

  • Goldstein, Melvyn C., editor.
  • Tibet Oral History and Archive Project.

Created / Published

  • Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 19821991.

Contents

  • Part 1. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she discusses the events surrounding the murder of her father and brother and the role of Dasang Dramdrü [Tib. zla bzang dgra 'dul] in the 1911-13 period and his coming to the Tsarong family. The interviewee also discusses how she came to go to school in Indian and about the history of the Tsarong family during this period.
  • Part 2. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she discusses going to school in India, the visit of Tsarong Shape to India and Nepal and his demotion when he returned to Lhasa. She also discusses in detail her marriage to Taring and their life afterwards, including her decision not to have a polyandrous marriage with his younger brother.
  • Part 3.Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she discusses life after her marriage to Taring, her husband going for training to use machine guns in Gyantse, and his positions after his return to Lhasa. The interviewee also discusses the life and promotions of Ngabö. She also talks about thinking that the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama might be born to her, and then in detail about how Taring built their house in Lhasa.
  • Part 4. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she speaks about how Tsarong protected the 13th Dalai Lama when he went to India, and about the discussions Tsarong had with the 13th Dalai Lama about expelling the Chinese. She also discusses how Tsarong was sent back to Tibet to expel the Chinese and how he later became the Magji Kalön. Mrs. Taring also tells how her father and brother were killed in Lhasa. She tells how Dasang Dramdrü came to the Tsarong family as a magpa. She also explains how Tsarong was demoted from magji to kalön to dzasa. She also discusses Lungshar and Künphel and the Drepung Loseling incident when the monks mobbed Norbulinga in protest. Mrs. Taring also explains in detail how Tsarong set up the gold coin office and how he sent people to Kolcutta to learn how to print paper currency.
  • Part 5. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she talks about the family background of Tsarong Dzasa (Dasang Damdrü) and his early years leading to his becoming a favorite of the 13th Dalai Lama. She talks also about the time he accompanied the 13th Dalai Lama to exile in China and Mongolia due to the British invasion, and how he held back the Chinese troops in 1910 so that the Dalai Lama was able to escape to India. She also talks about Tsarong's role in the 1911-12 expulsion of the Chinese/Manchus from Lhasa as well as his vision of what Tibet had to do to modernize, including his dream of a Greater Tibet that would merge Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan. She also explains his accomplishments in developing Tibet. She then tells about his pilgrimage to India and how he received an edict demoting him from his post as military commander-in-chief when he reached Chushul on his return trip.
  • Part 6. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she discusses in detail how land was divided and transferred among the miser on estates and about different types of miser. Then she discusses the income of the Taring family and also some comments on the Dalai Lama's father, Lungshar and Tsarong Sawangchemmo. The interviewee also talks about how estates could be sold. Then Mrs. Taring talks in detail about changing styles in Tibetan society, especially about women's headdresses and jewelery. She also explains how the aristocracy received licenses from the Political Officer in Sikkim to buy goods in India and take them to Tibet.
  • Part 7. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she talks about her experiences and general events during the 1950s.
  • Part 8. Mrs. Taring [Tib. 'phreng ring] was a famous Tibetan aristocrat married to Taring Dzasa. In this interview, she talks in detail about the work she did with the Women's Association during the 1950s, including several trips to Beijing.

Headings

  • -  Tibetans--Interviews
  • -  Tibetans--Biography

Genre

  • Oral histories

Notes

  • -  Recordings of interviews, supplemented by transcriptions of the interviews, translated into English.
  • -  Sex of interviewee: Female.
  • -  Forms part of the Tibet Oral History and Archive Project (TOHAP), edited by Melvyn Goldstein, and published by the Center for Research on Tibet, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (audio files)

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020705840

Online Format

  • pdf
  • online text
  • audio

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Tibet Oral History And Archive Project. Oral history interview of Taring Rinchen Drolma. editeds by Goldstein, Melvyn C.Itor Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1991, 1982. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020705840/.

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Tibet Oral History And Archive Project, Goldstein, M. C. I., ed. (1982) Oral history interview of Taring Rinchen Drolma. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1991. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020705840/.

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Tibet Oral History And Archive Project. Oral history interview of Taring Rinchen Drolma. ed by Goldstein, Melvyn C.Itor Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, 1991, 1982. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020705840/>.