Tales of Uncle Tompa

By Rinjing Dorje

The Western world has become familiar with Tibet through the Buddhist teachings of

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886449406
• ISBN13: 9781886449404
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

a fun time

This book is a good time. My grandmother introduced it to me as a small child mistakenly. Let me tell you, this book is not for children. It tells sutch stories as Uncle Tompa sells penises at the nunnery(ovioously not for the kids). In my openion this book is a riot. I loved it!

Some one needed to do it

With all the super-holy images of Tibet, someone needed to write a counterbalance showing that Tibetans are people too. Rinjing Dorje has done an excellent job of this by retelling the stories he learning in the camps of herdsmen. The author has a sure sense of story in his rendition of the stories and the drawings are well matched to the style of the stories.These stories may be "naughty" but they are all in good fun and represent the best of a ribald trickster figure - namely Uncle Tompa.It would be wonderful to have additional volumes of stories of this delightful character.

For adults only

I enjoyed the Uncle Tompa stories. They showed a different side of Tibet, the one of everyday people. However, a caution should be thrown in that some of the stories and illustrations are very raunchy, and this book is not a good choice for a younger reader.

Uncle Tomba Rules!

I read, and reread, Rinjing Dorje's long out of print collection of Uncle Tomba stories. They present a raunchy, human perspective on real life Tibetans that is a welcome antidote to the holier- than-thou-by-far Tibetan high church that Hollywood is so enamoured with this year.