Interview OR0012: with A1, A2, and A3, (China, August 2000)
Part 1: Tnterviewee [A1] was born in Shangtö Milung in Tsang to a treba family. When she was about sixteen years old, she began working as a maid-servant for the Sogang aristocratic family [the lord of Sogang]. At nineteen, the interviewee [A1] was sent to Lhasa to work as a maid-servant to the family of a lord. After giving birth to her daughter, she...
Contributor:
Gyatso - [A3] - Goldstein, Melvyn - [A4] - [A1] - Case Western Reserve University
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Interview OR0040: with Anon.0040, (China, 2000)
Part 1: The subject was born into a treba family whose lord was Phorongkha, the famous lama from Sera Monastery. His mother passed away when he was three and he travelled everywhere with his father who was in the army. In this interview, he describes how, after his father died when he was 13 years old, he had a very hard time working to...
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn - Anon - Case Western Reserve University - Gyatso
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Interview OR0041: with Anon.0041.01, (China, 2000)
Part 1: The subject was from a treba household and worked as a servant. In this interview, she describes in great detail the differences between the rich farmers, middle farmers, treba, ula, nangsen and trenyog, and their conditions. She discusses how she was sent as an ula laborer to build roads when the Dalai Lama came back from Yadong. She tells, in detail, how...
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn - Anon..01 - Case Western Reserve University - Gyatso
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Interview OR0042: with Anon.0042, (China, 2000)
Part 1: The subject was born in Samye and became a servant as a young boy for his lord. In this interview, he discusses how he later worked as a muleteer, during which time he made several trips to India and Kham, and he describes in detail his experiences as a muleteer. He also talks about his work as a donkey herder for the...
Contributor:
Interviewee's Son - Interviewee's Wife - Gyatso - Goldstein, Melvyn - Anon - Case Western Reserve University
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Interview OR0044: with Anon.0044, (China, 2000)
Part 1: The subject was born into a treba household and tended cows as a child. In this interview, he discusses how he later became a monk in the Mojog monastery at the age of 16 and describes his monastic life. He talks about how the reforms affected him and how he became a middle class farmer. In 1966, he became an activist and...
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn - Anon - Case Western Reserve University - Gyatso
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Interview OR0070: with Anon.0070, (China, 2001)
Part 1: The subject was born into a very poor trepa family in Lhoka as an illegitimate child. In this interview, he discusses being sent at the age of seven by his mother to Gongkar Chöde Monastery to become a monk. He discusses how he ran away from the monaster repeatedly and was frequently beaten by his teacher. After he finally left for good...
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn - Case Western Reserve University - Anon.70 - Gyatso
Date:2001
Audio Recording
Interview OR0072: with Anon.0072, (China, 2000)
Part 1: The subject was born into a family that belonged to Sera Monastery's Samlo Khamtsen. In this interview, he discusses how he became a child monk at age 8, but ran away at age 12, and how he then served an old woman and became a monk in Ganden Monastery. He explains how he was then captured by his family and returned to...
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn - Anon - Case Western Reserve University - Gyatso
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Interview OR0075: with Anon.0075, (China, 2000)
Part 1: The subject [A] was born in a treba household in Tsöna that belonged to the Ragashag aristocratic family. In this interview, he talks about how his parents couldn't pay their heavy taxes so they fled to the Mönpa area in India for a year. He discusses the local Mönpa custom of poisoning people and how he returned home when his mother got...
Contributor:
Anon. [a] - Goldstein, Melvyn - Case Western Reserve University - Anon.75 [A1] - Gyatso
