My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of how One Young Blind Woman Brought Hope to the Blind Children of TibetDefying everyone+s advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Sabriye Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who she learned had been abandoned by society and left to die. Traveling on horseback throughout the country, she sought them out, devised a Braille alphabet in Tibetan, equipped her charges with canes for the first time, and set up a school for the blind. Her efforts were crowned with such success that hundreds of young blind Tibetans, instilled with a newfound pride and an education, have now become self-supporting. A tale that will leave no reader unmoved, it demonstrates anew the power of the positive spirit to overcome the most daunting odds. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 18 |
Section 4 | 22 |
Section 5 | 30 |
Section 6 | 38 |
Section 7 | 55 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 15 | 132 |
Section 16 | 135 |
Section 17 | 145 |
Section 18 | 153 |
Section 19 | 171 |
Section 20 | 179 |
Section 21 | 197 |
Section 22 | 219 |
Section 9 | 81 |
Section 10 | 89 |
Section 11 | 101 |
Section 12 | 108 |
Section 13 | 126 |
Section 14 | 132 |
Section 23 | 232 |
Section 24 | 233 |
Section 25 | 245 |
Section 26 | 251 |
Section 27 | 271 |
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