Tenzin Gyatso : the Dalai Lama from birth to exile / by Claude B. Levenson ; translated by Joseph Rowe
- Bib ID:
- 1799391
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Levenson, Claude B
- Uniform Title:
- Dalai-lama. English
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- Description:
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- Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, 2001
- p. cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1556433832
- 9781556433832
- Summary:
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"In 1938, a group of emissaries in search of the fourteenth reincarnation of the Dalai Lama followed signs from visions and prophecies to a village in the south-east corner of Tibet. There, a lively three-year-old peasant boy declared to them in the elegant dialect of Lhassa that he was a lama from Sera and was eager to return to his monastery. This biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessors, one still marvels at the level of responsibility, maturity, and wisdom he possessed at a very young age. He maintained a policy against violence and retaliation despite increasing repression by the Chinese. In 1959, the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet and began his dangerous journey into exile from his homeland.
While working for the freedom of the Tibetan people, the Dalai Lama has become one of the most-beloved activists and teachers of our time, promoting mutual respect, truthfulness, and compassion around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: Author's Introduction to the First American Edition ix
- Over the Himalayas to Freedom 1
- I Leave for Lhassa 7
- From One Incarnation to Another 25
- On the Roof of the Potala 37
- A Traveler on the Way 57
- In the Heart of Danger 73
- A Year in China 89
- Pilgrimage to India 107
- Revolt and Exile 123
- APPENDIX
- Chronological Reference Points
- in the Life of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama 139
- A Brief Tibetan Chronology 143
- The Testament of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama 147
- Selected English and French Bibliography 153
- About the Author 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154)
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Rowe, Joseph, 1942-
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