I feel as though I can recount every single detail of the struggle between Tibet & China. The first few chapters were marvelous, and ridiculously interesting, but then it became 100% political. I'm kind of torn on what I think about this book. This is a must read for anyone who is interested in Tibet, His Holiness and our struggle for genuine autonomy. Yet, on the other hand, it has humbled me down, almost making me feel negligible to my own eyes, like the meaning of my own life and that of my father’s and mother’s has really come to have nothing if it wasn’t for our Tibet and His Holiness. On the one hand, this book has made me aware of my significance, my role as a Tibetan and my belonging to this tragic modern history of my fatherland. ![]() If anything, you are just an undeviating product of what happened to Tibet and to the Dalai Lama more than 50 years ago. You come to realize that your life and all those self-acclaimed tragedies that you have so far made a list of, doesn't come as near to what His Holiness had to experience. It overwhelmed me, tore my heart and had me weep. Although I grew up hearing almost every details mentioned in the book, like any other Tibetan kid born into exile, reading the book written by the very man made it a whole new story. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal on 17 October 2007. ![]() There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony. This Dalai Lama is the first to travel to the West. Tenzin Gyatso is a charismatic figure and noted public speaker. These talks ultimately failed.Īfter a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him. ![]() In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. He was proclaimed the tulku (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub), the 14th Dalai Lama, is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the world's most famous Buddhist monk, and the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in India.
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