The Dalai Lama is the most beloved spiritual and political leader of our time. For believers and nonbelievers alike, this gentle monk with the winsome smile and laughing eyes embodies the spirit of compassion, love, and nonviolent resistance to tyranny. In addition to millions of ordinary people around the globe, Dalai Lama fans and serious devotees include statesmen, scientists, religious leaders (including several rabbis and a former archbishop of Canterbury), and Hollywood celebrities, such as Richard Gere, Goldie Hawn, and Martin Scorcese. Also among his admirers are the members of the Nobel Committee, who, in 1989, awarded the tireless crusader for human rights the Nobel Peace Prize.

What is the source of the Dalai Lama s tremendous international appeal and to what extent does the public image reflect the private man? Is he just a humble monk with a simple message of love and compassion, or is he a canny political operator with a keen sense of modern public relations techniques? Behind the public image of the dogged defender of human rights, does there lurk a thwarted potentate who dreams of reclaiming his throne as his Chinese critics contend?

In His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Deborah and Gerald Strober take a unique approach to answering these and other questions. Drawing upon interviews with more than fifty individuals, including the Dalai Lama s associates and followers, as well as politicians, clerics, and critics, they present to us an uncommonly intimate portrait of His Holiness. With only minimal editorial interruption, the Strobers allow these women and men to tell their stories and share their often surprising insights into the Dalai Lama s life and personality—from his childlike sense of fun to his insatiable curiosity about the latest developments in physics and astronomy, from the sound of his laugh to the integrity of his spiritual and ethical thinking. Like a series of candid snapshots that gradually coalesce into a coherent image of a man in all of his complexity, these brief encounters evoke the true character of the Dalai Lama and the effect he has on all who meet him.

At the same time, this book chronicles His Holiness s incredible life story, beginning in 1935 in the remote village of Taktser where the three year old peasant, Lhamo Dhondrub, was identified as the incarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. From there they trace each step of his journey, from his early enthronement and religious training in Lhasa; his first momentous encounters with Westerners—especially Austrian mountain climber, Heinrich Harrer, of Seven Years in Tibet fame—in the 1940s; his flight from Chinese oppression and the establishment of the Tibetan Government in Exile in 1950; through his dramatic transformation, in the 1980s and 90s—from a cloistered holy man to a global cultural icon.

Offering a uniquely comprehensive and balanced portrait of one of the most compelling public figures of our time, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is must reading for Dalai Lama fans and devotees of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as students of modern culture.

Taal / Language : English

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Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Chronology.
The Interviewees.
PART I: SIMPLE MONK, WORLD LEADER.
Chapter 1: The Public Dalai Lama: His Appeal to the Masses.
Chapter 2: Glimpses of the Private Dalai Lama: His Character and Personality.
Chapter 3: Toronto, April 2004.
PART II: BEGINNINGS.
Chapter 4: From Taktser to Lhasa.
Chapter 5: Coming of Age in Occupied Tibet: Uprising and Exile.
Chapter 6: Dharamsala: The Early Years in “Little Lhasa”.
PART III: SPIRITUAL SAINT OR POLITICAL TROUBLEMAKER?
Chapter 7: Taking the Dalai Lama’s Political Message Regarding China Abroad.
Chapter 8: Promoting the Dalai Lama’s Spiritual Message Abroad.
PART IV: CONFRONTING CHALLENGES AND UNCERTAINTIES.
Chapter 9: The Dalai Lama and the Exile Community Today.
Chapter 10: Chinese Calculations and Miscalculations.
PART V: LOOKING AHEAD.
Chapter 11: Dialogues.
Chapter 12: The Future of the Institution of the Dalai Lama.
Index.
Illustrations.

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My Spiritual Autobiography

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An autobiography of the Dalai Lama`s spiritual life, offering an insight into his interior world with great skill, sensitivity and openess. His many books, including }The Art Of Happiness{, have sold more than 400,000 copies for Rider

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Open Road

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Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama for the last 3 decades, and here examines the paradoxes of his position: among many others, he is a religious leader who warns against being distracted by religion. March 10th is the 50th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day

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The Path to Freedom "Freedom in Exile: Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet", "Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium"

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FREEDOM IN EXILE - Here, in his own words, The Dalai Lama 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. He tells of secret deals struck with the CIA as Tibet continued to struggle for independence, talks freely of the many world leaders he has known, and talks of the West's malaise from his standpoint as a spirtual and temporal figure of world reknown. ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN WORLD - With wit, gentle good sense and with penetrating insight, the Dalai Lama shows how the truths that have stood the test of generations of practise can provide us with the tools to live happy, fulfilled and meaningful lives. In the process, it becomes apparent that he does not merely espouse the 'feelgood' religiosity some accuse him of. The reader is left admiring not just the wisdom of the author, but the wisdom of the culture he represents. In ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN WORLD, His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses these issues, in a spiritual complement to his autobiography FREEDOM IN EXILE.

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