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''Tulku'' is a children's historical novel by Peter Dickinson, published by Gollancz in 1979. Set in China and Tibet at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, it features a young teenage boy orphaned by the violence, who flees with others to a Buddhist monastery. Dickinson and ''Tulku'' won two major awards for British children's books, the Whitbread Children's Book Award〔 and the Carnegie Medal.〔 The Carnegie Medal from the Library Association then recognised the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Dutton published a U.S. edition within the calendar year under its Unicorn imprint.〔〔 ("Tulku By Peter Dickinson" ). ''Kirkus Reviews'' (no date; review of US ed. published 9 May 1979). Retrieved 2012-09-18.〕 ==Plot summary== Thirteen-year-old Theodore lives in a remote region of China at his father's Mission. When the violence of the Boxer Rebellion finally reaches them, Theodore escapes alone from its destruction. He soon becomes one companion of a formidable Englishwoman, "painted, blasphemous, gun-toting Mrs Jones".〔 She is an amateur botanist and a former actress with an entourage. The party flees bandits into Tibet and take refuge at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Theodore is briefly seen to be the Tulku, a great lama reincarnated; then the recently conceived child of Mrs Jones and her Chinese lover is identified as the one. Theodore is exposed to the "magnetic, repugnant rituals of Buddhism" and develops as a "whole, willing Christian". Mrs Jones is recruited to remain on site and the boy finally returns to England with the fruit of her botanical expedition.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tulku (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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