We Could Be Heroes: Mythico-History, Diasporic Nationalism, and Youth Identity among Tibetan Refugees in Nepal
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v16i1.238Keywords:
Undergraduate research, Undergraduate research abroad, Education abroad, Nepal, diasporic nationalism, youth identity, Tibetan refugeesAbstract
This article presents an undergraduate student research project on mythico-history, diasporic nationalism, and youth identity among Tibetan refugees conducted in Kathmandu, Nepal through the Cornell-Nepal Study Program.
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March, Kathryn S. “If Each Comes Halfway”: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Moynihan, Maura. “Tibetan Refugees in Nepal,” in Exile as Challenge: The Tibetan Diaspora. Ed. Dagmar Bernstorff, and Hubertus Von Welck. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2002.
Ortner, Sherry B. High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Tsepak Rigzin. “Tibetan Schools in the Diaspora,” in Exile as Challenge: The Tibetan Diaspora. Ed. Dagmar Bernstorff, and Hubertus Von Welck. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2002.
Wongchuk Tsering, the Dalai Lama’s representative in Nepal. Personal Interview. February 2005
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2008-12-15
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Balakian, S. A. (2008). We Could Be Heroes: Mythico-History, Diasporic Nationalism, and Youth Identity among Tibetan Refugees in Nepal. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 16(1), 123–146. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v16i1.238
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