The Dalai Lama A Biography

by Levenson, Claude B.; Cox, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780195650174
• ISBN10: 0195650174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Setting the Scene
Monlam in Bodh Gaya	p. 3
Of Myth and History	p. 7
Portrait of a Tibetan Monk as Dalai Lama
One Life, and Many	p. 47
Next Year in Lhasa	p. 90
A Day in the Life of the Dalai Lama	p. 103
The Laughter of a Monk	p. 126
A Royal Solitude	p. 136
The Lord of the White Lotus on the Lion's Throne	p. 161
On the Highways of the World	p. 193
Of the Three Times and the Ten Directions
A Road to Shambhala	p. 221
To Time's Fulfilment	p. 242
Glossary	p. 277
Notes	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 286
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