Christ versus Marx: The China Paradox

George N Patterson

The Long Riders' Guild Press

Requiem for Tibet

In this remarkable autobiography George Patterson, confidant of the Dalai Lama, tells of the mission that took him to Tibet and of his part in Tibet's struggle to withstand China. Brought up in a Plymouth Brethren background, Patterson travelled, at the call of God, to Tibet in 1946.  Arriving in eastern Tibet he was befriended by the charismatic Khamba chieftain Topgyay and threw himself into the colourful Tibetan life and its precarious politics as the Communists pushed towards Peking.  After three years of living among the Tibetans, Patterson was sent as their emissary, through snow blizzards and landslides, over the mighty Himalayas  to India to warn the Western governments of the impending Chinese takeover and to be the publicity 'point man' of the Tibetan revolt. After the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Patterson was threatened with expulsion from India for revealing the atrocities and, after being exonerated, eventually returned to Britain.  He visited Tibet again in 1964, to film the Khamba rebels in action against the Chinese, and once more in 1987, when he concluded that the Tibetan nation was doomed. Requiem for Tibet is a vivid account of George Patterson's extraordinary life, and of his faith in divine intervention, but it also tells the story of the plight of Tibet-a condemned nation once the Chinese invasion took its toll.

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Long Riders' Guild Press

Patterson of Tibet

This is the autobiography of George Patterson, the colourful Scot who has linked his life to that mysterious mountain kingdom. The Long Rider author was a Scottish medical missionary who went to Tibet shortly after the second World War. There he became Tibetan in all but name, adapting to the culture and learning the language fluently. When the Communist Chinese army advanced into Tibet, the country's leaders knew a plea for help had to be taken to India. The only way to achieve this was by riding through the snow-locked Himalayas over a mountain pass even the locals were afraid to try. So Patterson undertook an emergency equestrian journey across the wildest parts of Tibet. "He was a superb horseman whose body was as efficient as the Tibetans," reported London's Times. Years later, with the Red Chinese still occupying Tibet, and with a bounty on his head for his role in rescuing the Dalai Lama, a band of determined Tibetan guerrillas invited Patterson to witness their attack on the invading Communist army. No other westerner could get into Tibet, except Patterson, so the outside world was still oblivious to the Chinese invasion and the atrocities being perpetrated on the Tibetans. So Patterson went back into his adopted country - illegally - and with a film crew! This intense autobiography goes on to reveal how Patterson crossed swords with India's Prime Minister Nehru, helped with the rescue of the Dalai Lama and befriended a host of unique world figures ranging from Yehudi Menhuin to Eric Clapton. This is a vividly-written account of a life of high adventure and spiritual odyssey.

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