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Item Endless cups of tea : Tibetans on the Buddhist path in Santa Fe, New Mexico(1994) Bell, Martha Smith, 1958-; Brow, JamesThe following life histories are personal accounts of Tibetan history as told by Tibetan refugees living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Telling life histories is a literary genre in Tibet, but for a Tibetan, life is not chronological. Tibetans tend to tell life experiences as they relate to a person's journey along the path to enlightenment. The aural/oral exchange between the listener/writer and the Tibetan life storyteller is an attempt to bring together the self with the other, nominal terms separated out in conventional reality. The texts are symbolically situated in the sacred so that self can be deconstructed. The methodology of this thesis seeks to question self implicitly so that others may have insight into emptiness and the interrelatedness of all beings. This moves the autobiography out of the realm of mere narcissism. The primary aim of this inquiry is to give voice to an individual, who also represents the mother, father, child, lover and enemy in one's own lifetime. To do this is to walk in a Buddhist's shoes