Born In Tibet 
by Chogyam Trungpa.

I was introduced into the old wisdom of Tibet through the books of Lobsang Rampa, and when I came across this, I thought it also contented some esoteric thought-food, but this book is mainly about the invasion of Tibet in the 50s, and how some of them- tried to get away from the invading Chinese.


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Chögyam Trungpa—meditation master, scholar, and artist—was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in meditation, philosophy, and fine arts, receiving full ordination as a monk in 1958 at the age of eighteen. The following year, the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, and the young Trungpa spent many harrowing months trekking over the Himalayas, narrowly escaping capture. 

Trungpa's account of his experiences as a young monk, his duties as the abbot and spiritual head of a great monastery, and his moving relationships with his teachers offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a Tibetan lama. The memoir concludes with his daring escape from Tibet to India. In an epilogue, he describes his emigration to the West, where he encountered many people eager to learn about the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism.

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2 parts: copy the links and paste into browser if not finding the files online else.

part 1 can be read online by search- and this online part is copied here also.
http://lobsang-rampa.net/born_in_tibet_trungpa1.pdf


part2 is scanned from an old printing/edition from -66 (-71) with some more pictures, but remark that all those were not in the orig.printing.

http://lobsang-rampa.net/bornintibet2_sml_mBild.pdf