Dorje Yudon Yuthok’s House of the Turquoise Roof (published in 1990) is a fascinating account of life in upper-class Lhasa before the Chinese occupation of 1959.
Born in Drak, 50 miles southeast of Lhasa, in 1912, she lived a privileged life. Her father and husband were cabinet ministers.
In this auto -biography written in Tibetan and translated into English, she explained that she wrote her memoir as there were very few books on everyday life in Tibet.
Her account is unique and records a world of timelessness, which is now gone forever due to modernisation.