The Year of Great Burning – on the Tibetan and Western self-immolations of 2009 to 2013

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The Year of Great Burning – on the Tibetan and Western self-immolations of 2009 to 2013

April 5, 2013 by Martin Kovan

This essay discusses the general context for the Tibetan self-immolations of 2009 to 2013, as well as the sole Western self-immolation committed in solidarity with them by an English Tibetan Buddhist monk in November, 2012. The essay was published in print (March, 2013) and online (April 3, 2013) in Overland Literary Journal, and is copyright to the author.

http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-210/feature-martin-kovan/

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whispered lineage

Martin Kovan is a writer and research scholar working in ethics and philosophy, fiction and non-fiction, memoir and poetry. This is a gathering-place for his published and some unpublished work in multiple genres from 2009 to 2023

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