My Land and My People: Memoirs of the Dalai Lama of Tibet
Dalai Lama, H.H. the XIV
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Book ID : 2290
ISBN-10 : 81-87075-06-6 / 8187075066
ISBN-13 : 978-81-87075-06-6 / 9788187075066
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2013
Edition : (Fourth Impression)
Language : English
271p., B/W Plts., App., Index, 19 cm. (First Indian Paperback pub. in 1997)
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. The farmer's son. 2. The quest for enlightenment. 3. Peace of mind. 4. Our neighbor China. 5. Invasion. 6. In communist China. 7. Repression and resentment. 8. A pilgrimage to India. 9. Revolt. 10. Crisis in Lhasa. 11. Escape. 12. Into exile. 13. Present and future.
DESCRIPTION
This dignified testament by a great spiritual and temporal leader, driven into exile by Communist China, is one of the most heartbreaking documents ever published. His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet relates the story of his brief, tumultuous reign climaxed by the appalling destruction and systematic murder of his people by the Chinese. A civilized, compassionate man and a sincere reformer, he writes of the simple Tibetan life into which he was born, and among whom he, as the reincarnation of his predecessor, was discovered and declared Dalai Lama according to his country's ancient customs. During and after the invasion, the International Commission of Jurists undertook a detailed study of the situation. The horror uncovered by the Commission surpassed sanity and reason, and it is detailed in these pages. My Land and My People is tragic book. Yet it is deeply inspiring, for the whole story is told with the gentle forgiving spirit of a Buddhist monk.
