Freedom In Exile - The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama - by The Dalai Lama

This autobiography of the Dalai Lama brings new scintillations of truth into the darkness of parts of our world. Candid, humorous, insightful and often pithy, His Holiness shares the story of his life and of his people.

Fully accomplishing his stated motivation for the work, he both shares the profoundly interesting details and confessions of his childhood, together with poetic and picturesque memories of Tibetan terrain, flowers, birds and animals, but also sets history straight in sharing as many facts as possible regarding the situation in Tibet since the early 1950s. No authentic future writer of world history can afford to omit the truth about China and Tibet as detailed in this book.

One of the most moving events in the book is when the Dalai Lama looks into the face of Mao and in silence thinks all but aloud - so you are the destroyer of the Dharma after all! The horrific brutalities suffered by the Tibetan people at the hands of the Chinese are somewhat assuaged in the reader by the Dalai Lama's own strong but gentle views of life and death, the universal responsibility and the good heart.

Chapters include:

• Holder of the White Lotus
• The Lion Throne
• Escape into Exile
• A Wolf in Monks Robes
• Of Magic and Mystery

"An earnest, inspiring, and wholly captivating classic tale of spiritual adventure." -

"Compelling...fascinating...eye-opening. -

"Anyone wanting to understand Tibet today will do well to read this." -

5" x 8" / 288 pages. Paperback