ABSTRACT
While most of the older children became co-participants in their parents’ struggle, many of the younger ones were looked after and educated by the Children’s Homes and Tibetan Children’s Villages, then newly established by the community. Emerging as a strong, individual voice, Dolma no longer seeks meaning for her suffering in the tenets of karmic philosophy. Departing from the formulation that played a large role in containing the distress of the preceding generation, Dolma searches for answers by trying to analyse and understand the political context of what had happened. Jamyang Norbu is a well-known Tibetan writer, political thinker and literary critic. Formerly director of the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Norbu was also a co-founder of Amnye Machen. Within this context, parental, especially maternal, deprivation in infancy is understood as being potentially capable of producing long-term negative consequences for the child.
