Tenzin Gyatso The Early Life of the Dalai Lama

by Levenson, Claude B.; Rowe, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781556433832
• ISBN10: 1556433832
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-03
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

This exciting and often intense biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessors, one still marvels at the level of responsibility, maturity, and wisdom he possessed at a very young age. Through Claude B. Levenson's account of his youth, illuminated by photographs and many recollections of the Dalai Lama in his own words, we begin to understand how a lama from Tibet has become the worldwide spiritual leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

Author Biography

Formerly a resident of Paris, Claude B. Levenson now lives in Switzerland. She was a scholar of Slavic and Eastern languages, including Sanskrit, before becoming a freelance journalist, and translator. She is the author of a number of other books about Tibet.

Table of Contents

Author's Introduction to the First American Edition	ix
Over the Himalayas to Freedom	1	(6)
I Leave for Lhassa	7	(18)
From One Incarnation to Another	25	(12)
On the Roof of the Potala	37	(20)
A Traveler on the Way	57	(16)
In the Heart of Danger	73	(16)
A Year in China	89	(18)
Pilgrimage to India	107	(16)
Revolt and Exile	123	(32)
APPENDIX
Chronological Reference Points in the Life of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	139	(4)
A Brief Tibetan Chronology	143	(4)
The Testament of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama	147	(6)
Selected English and French Bibliography	153	(2)
About the Author	155