God Spoke Tibetan / Maberly, Allan / (HB/1971-1971/NDJ/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Mild to moderate page age wear.*

This is the true story of the men who gave the Bible to the people of remote, forbidden Tibet in the language of the Tibetans.

Starting with the sudden death of a Dalai Lama in the thousand-room palace of Lhasa, the story moves into Kashmir as a government official accused of murder escapes for his life. This fugitive, settling in a "Shangri-la" valley of Kashmir, helps launch the first attempts to translate the Bible. But the task proves formidable beyond anyone's imagination, as a sequence of heartbreaking setbacks blocks the translators' efforts. Not only are there language barriers, but also war and revolution, a Himalayan thunderstorm, the heat of India's plains, and a roaring avalanche from a mountain cliff.

The setting for this improbable but well-documented narrative is an exotic land surrounded by the world's highest mountains. It is a country whose people practice Buddhism heavily mixed with demon worship; where polyandry (plurality of husbands) is practiced; where, until the Chinese invasion, a succession of Dalai Lamas were both worshiped and assassinated.

The translation of a Bible hardly sounds like an exciting event, but this one is different. You will be not only entertained, but inspired with a sense of the power of the Word of life, the Book that "is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword."

"God Spoke Tibetan" will stir all those who love the Holy Scriptures and rejoice in its triumphant witness to the farthest points of the globe.

Table of Contents

1. Death in the Palace
2. The Gods of the Chang Tang
3. "Om Mani Padme Hum"
4. Knocking on Iron Gates
5. The Valley of Decision
6. The Lama and the Key
7. In Perils Oft
8. The Case of the Terrified Courier
9. The Persistent Scribe
10. Into the Lion's Jaw
11. Wind off the Snow
12. Through the Bamboo Curtain

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