ACROSS MANY MOUNTAINS

A powerful emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when chairman mao’s red army crushes tibetan independence sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy himalayas toward freedomkunsang thought she would never leave tibet one of the countrys youngest buddhist nuns she grew up in a remote mountain village where as a teenager she entered the local nunnery though simple kunsangs life gave her all she needed: a oneness with nature and a sense of the spiritual in all things she married a monk had two children and lived in peace and prayer but not for long there was a saying in tibet: when the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels the tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth the chinese invasion of tibet in 1950 changed everything when soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery destroying everything in their path kunsan