Jamyang Norbu

Jamyang Norbu (bo|t=འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ་|w='jam-dbyangs nor-bu) is an influential ["Tibet’s foremost political essayist and activist in exile", according to Steven Venturino in "Where Is Tibet in World Literature?", World Literature Today, January, 2004.] ["the foremost Tibetan political essayist, playwright, and novelist", according to Dorsh Marie de Voe's "Tibetans in India", Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-0-306-48321-9.] Tibetan political activist and writer, currently living in exile in India. In his youth he briefly joined the Tibetan Resistance in Mustang. Later he founded and directed the Amnye Machen Institute [ [http://www.amnyemachen.org Amnye Machen site] .] , Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, in Dharamsala. His relentless opposition to Chinese rule in Tibet has led him to criticize the strategy of the Tibetan Government in Exile, which he regards as too conciliatory [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2005%2F07%2F24%2FING6RDRP0J1.DTL&type=printable 'Hands off' isn't enough for Tibet] by Topden Tsering, July 24, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle.] [Jamyang Norbu, [http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=15444&article=Looking+Back+From+Nangpa-La+-Jamyang+Norbu&t=1&c=4 Looking Back From Nangpa-La] , January 27, 2007, at [http://www.phayul.com/ phayul.com] .] . His endeavours have also been derided by Chinese authorities as "the wings of a fly beating against a boulder" [ WCTIT Bio] . Norbu has written several books and theater pieces in English and in Tibetan. In 2000 he received the Hutch Crossword Book Award, the most prestigious literary award of India, for his book "The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes". [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/03/28/tracey_ed3_.php Tibetan Sherlock shakes up the movement] by David Tracey, March 28, 2002,
International Herald Tribune] [ [http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/10/01/stories/2006100100210300.htm Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes] by Meenakshi Mukherjee, October 1, 2006, The Hindu.] [ [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1003462713490228440.html?mod=googlewsj Longing for the Himalayas] by Tsering Namgyal, October 19, 2001, The Wall Street Journal online.] . The book was published in the the U.S. in 2001, first under the title "Sherlock Holmes - The Missing Years".

Books In English by Jamyang Norbu

*"Warriors of Tibet: The Story of Aten and the Khampas' Fight for the Freedom of Their Country" (originally titled "Horseman in the Snow"), Wisdom, 1987, Wisdom Pub. , ISBN 0-861-71050-9.
*"The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes", Bloomsbury USA, 2003, ISBN 1-582-34328-4.
*"Illusion and reality", Tibetan Youth Congress, 1989.

External links

* [http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/ Shadow Tibet: Jamyang Norbu's blog]

References and notes

* [http://www.rangzen.net/eng/charter/author.html Bio] at the [http://www.rangzen.net/ World Council of Tibetans for an Independent Tibet] site.
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tibet/interviews/norbu.html Interview] at PBS Frontline.
*An online [http://www.tibetwrites.org/?_Jamyang-Norbu_ collection of articles] by Jamyang Norbu.
* [http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1162861 'Dalai Lama's 'Middle Way' has failed'] , an interview with Jamyang Norbu, by Venkatesan Vembu, Daily News & Analysis, May 6, 2008.