By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0307574202
ISBN-13: 9780307574206
This nationwide bestseller exploring the advanced emotional lives of animals used to be hailed as "a masterpiece" by way of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" through Jane Goodall.
The acclaim for whilst Elephants Weep has swept the state, as writer Jeffrey Masson seemed on Dateline NBC, sturdy Morning America, and used to be profiled in People for his ground-breaking and interesting learn. no longer considering the fact that Darwin's The Expression of feelings in guy and Animals has a publication so completely and successfully explored the whole variety of feelings that exist during the animal country.
From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring on interesting anecdotes and illuminating insights that supply robust evidence of the life of animal emotion. Chapters on love, pleasure, anger, worry, disgrace, compassion, and loneliness are framed through a provocative re-examination of the way we deal with animals, from searching and consuming them to medical experimentation. Forming an entire and compelling photo of the internal lives of animals, When Elephants Weep assures that we'll by no means examine animals within the related approach back.
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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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