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Freedom In Exile Author: Dalai Lama Binding: Paperback 344 pages (April
1998) ISBN: 0349111111 Synopsis In 1938 a two year old boy was
recognised through a traditional process of discovery as being the reincarnation
of all previous Dalai Lamas, the spiritual rulers of Tibet. Taken away from his
parents, he was brought up in Lhasa according to a monastic regimen of rigorous
austerity and in almost total isolation. Aged seven he was enthroned in the
1000-room Potala palace as the supreme spiritual leader of a nation the size of
Western Europe, with population of six million. And at fifteen, he became head
of state. With Tibet under threat from the newly Communist Chinese, there
followed a traumatic decade during which he became the confidant of both
Chairman Mao and Jawaharal Nehru as he tried to maintain autonomy for his
people. Then in 1959, he was finally forced into exile - followed by over
100,000 destitute refugees. Here, in his own words, he describes what it was
like to grow up revered as a deity among his people, reveals his innermost
feelings about his role, and discusses the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. |
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