By Renee Askins
ISBN-10: 0385507089
ISBN-13: 9780385507080
After forming an extreme bond with Natasha, a wolf cub she raised as a part of her undergraduate study, Renée Askins used to be encouraged to came across the Wolf Fund. As head of this grassroots association, she made it her aim to revive wolves to Yellowstone nationwide Park, the place that they had been eliminated by way of guy over seventy years sooner than. right here, Askinsrecounts her brave fifteen-year crusade, wrangling alongside the way in which with Western ranchers and their political allies in Washington, enduring demise threats, and surviving the ache of unlawful wolf slayings to make sure that her dream of restoring Yellowstone’s ecological stability might in the future be discovered. informed in strong, first-person narrative, Shadow Mountainis the awe-inspiring tale of her undertaking and her impassioned meditation on our connection to the wild.
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3 Taklung Dzong [stag lung rdzong] was built by a monk named Tenpe Dronme [bstan pa’i sgron me] in the Kalaktang [kha legs steng] region in the sixteenth century: it is one of the oldest fortresses cum gompa [dgon pa] in the Monpa area Fig. 4 A wall of Taklung Dzong [stag lung rdzong]: this dzong consisted of three floors, but it was destroyed by an earthquake. 2 Formation of Taklung Dzong Fortress 37 Tenpe Dronme (bstan pa’i sgron me) in the Kalaktang region during the sixteenth century. Tenpe Dronme was a disciple of the second Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyasto [dge ’dun rgya mtsho] (1475–1543; Tenpa 2013).
34 3 Taxation by the Tibetan Authorities and the Formation of Fortresses According to Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi (1909), the Tibetan administration in Lhasa in about 1900 consisted of 165 monks and the same number of secular individuals serving as senior officials. According to Yamaguchi (1987), those numbers were 175 monks and 175 secular individuals. More details were reported by Kawaguchi (1909). The Tibetan monks were under the direction of four senior secretaries and the secular staff under four ministers.
2 Compiled by Wag Indra, the document Rgyal rigs’byung khungs gsal ba’i sgron me (Rgyal rigs for short) is translated as Ngag dbang in Tibetan. Ardussi (2009) believes that it was written in 1668, though Aris (1986) puts this date at 1728 and Yang Palmo all had a son each with the king, and their names were, respectively, Sangde Tsan [gsang sde btsan], Bede Tsan [sbas sde btsan], and Gapde Tsan [’gab sde btsan]. Sangde Tsan became king of a region in Bhutan. Gapde Tsan was taken to the place known as the Khorwong [’khor dbang] valley under Thembang [them bang] to be enthroned, even though poverty was prevalent in that area.
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