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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Seven Years in Tibet about Pigott-Smith's, German, Dalai with the genre: Travel, Asia.
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conversations.value: In this fascinating memoir Pigott-Smith's intonations reveal practically nothing of the German rogue who befriended the boy Dalai Lama in Tibet. His mellifluous British cadences are in the style of documentary narration -- excellent documentary narration, in fact -- not of personal confession. Anyone expecting a spiritual journey will be disappointed. The schematic abridgment tells an arresting tale of how a fugitive from the World War rose to prominence in an exotic locale and met the living incarnation of Buddha before being forced to flee. Whatever enlightenment the authore achieved from the horse's mouth, as it were, gets short shift. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Pigott-Smith's, German, Dalai with the genre: Travel, Asia.. End with the sentence '\nYears later, Harrer and Rolf (now a teenager) are seen mountain-climbing together, suggesting they have mended their relationship at the end of the film.'.
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conversations.value: Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film): Austrian mountaineers Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are part of a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in British India (present-day Pakistan).\nWhen World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by British Indian authorities and imprisoned in a POW camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand.\nHarrer's pregnant wife, Ingrid, sends him divorce papers from Austria.\nIn 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross into Tibet.\nAfter being initially rejected by the isolated nation, they manage to travel in disguise to the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa.\nThere, they become the house guests of Tibetan diplomat Kungo Tsarong (Mako).\nThe Tibetan senior official Ngawang Jigme (Wong) also extends friendship to the two foreigners with gifts of custom-made Western suits.\nAufschnaiter falls in love with the tailor, Pema Lhaki, and marries her.\nIn 1945, Harrer plans to return to Austria.\nHowever, he receives a cold letter from his son, rejecting Harrer as his father, and this deters him from leaving Tibet.\nSoon afterwards, Harrer is invited to the Potala Palace and becomes the 14th Dalai Lama's tutor in world geography, science, and Western culture.\nMeanwhile, political relations with China sour as they make plans to invade Tibet.\nNgawang Jigme leads the Tibetan army at the border town of Chamdo to halt the advancing People's Liberation Army.\nHowever, Ngawang Jigme ends up surrendering and blows up the Tibetan ammunition dump after the one-sided Battle of Chamdo.\nDuring the treaty signing, Kungo Tsarong tells Harrer that if Jigme had not destroyed the weapons supply the Tibetan guerrillas could have held the mountain passes long enough to appeal to other nations for help.\nAs the Chinese invade and occupy Tibet, Harrer condemns Ngawang Jigme for betraying his country, declaring their friendship over.\nHarrer further shames the senior official by returning the jacket that Ngawang Jigme gave him as a present, which is a grave insult in Tibetan culture.\nHarrer tries to convince the Dalai Lama to flee, but he refuses; not wanting to abandon his people.\nThe Dalai Lama encourages Harrer to return to Austria and be a father to his son.\nAfter the coronation ceremony, in which the Dalai Lama is formally enthroned as the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Harrer returns to Austria in 1951.\nRolf refuses to meet Harrer at first, but Harrer leaves a music box that the Dalai Lama gave him and this piques Rolf's interest.\nYears later, Harrer and Rolf (now a teenager) are seen mountain-climbing together, suggesting they have mended their relationship at the end of the film.
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conversations.value: Seven Years in Tibet
  It was a thick veil, and it did not get much thinner as the years went by. The end of the nineteenth century found Europe's eyes turning toward Asia. The geographical challenge of Africa had been, in its essentials, met, and on that continent the political problems, save in South Africa, appeared in those days to be soluble only in the chanceries of European capitals. In Asia, by contrast, imponderable and exotic forces were on the move. Russia's conquests in Central Asia had fulfilled what was believed to be only the first phase of her territorial ambitions; in the minds of Lord Curzon and of Kipling, her attempts to probe with reconnaissance parties the mountain barrier that separated her armies from India produced apprehensions that the event proved to be disproportionate.
  But here again Asia came into the picture, for while Young-husband—bringing artillery into action, for the first and so far the last time in history, at 17,000 feet above sea level—was defeating the Tibetans, the Japanese, with much less of apology in their manner, were defeating the Russians in Manchuria. And only three years earlier, in the Boxer Rebellion, an international expedition had raised the siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking.
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conversations.value: WE CONTINUED to pay daily visits—so many people had called on us—and thus acquired a good knowledge of the home life of distinguished Tibetans. There was one point in which we could compare the people of Lhasa favorably with the inhabitants of our own cities. They always had time.
  Tibet has not yet been infested by the worst disease of modern life, the everlasting rush. No one overworks here. Officials have an easy life. They turn up at the office late in the morning and leave for their homes early in the afternoon. If an official has guests or any other reason for not coming, he just sends a servant to a colleague and asks him to officiate for him.
  Women know nothing about equal rights and are quite happy as they are. They spend hours making up their faces, restringing their pearl necklaces, choosing new material for dresses, and thinking how to outshine Mrs. So-and-so at the next party. They do not have to bother about housekeeping, which is all done by the servants. But to show that she is mistress the lady of the house always carries a large bunch of keys around with her. In Lhasa every trifling object is locked up and double-locked.
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conversations.value: No doubt the greatest recognition for the Dalai Lama and his cause came in 1989, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
  It is not difficult to imagine my personal pride and gratitude in having one of the truly great men of our time as a friend and as my lasting contact with the equally great nation that took me in when I was a penniless fugitive.
  It is a wonderful coincidence that we both have July 6 as our birthday, and it certainly was one of the greatest days in my birthplace, Hüttenburg, in the province of Carinthia, in Austria, that His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, came to bless and open the H. H. Museum.
  Today the destruction in Tibet continues. The holy city of Lhasa has become a Chinese town; only 2 percent of the typical Tibetan houses are left. However, thousands of Chinese shops, and hundreds of brothels, gambling houses, and amusement establishments built to please the soldiers of the occupation army have disappeared. Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs.
  Though vocal support for Tibetan freedom is growing throughout the world, materialistic aims in most countries are given preference over human rights.