Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama

ISBN 10: 0340518189 / ISBN 13: 9780340518182

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1990

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Inscribed, signed and dated (all in Tibetan) by the Dalai Lama on the half-title page. Included is a signed, stamped, and dated insert from someone in the office of the Dalai Lama in India. Seemingly unread volume in VG+ condition with a couple of lightly bumped corners and a touch of shelf wear, mainly to bottoms of backstrap and corners. Bottom of backstrap lightly bumped. Jacket has shelf wear- light rubbing and scratching, some curling of the flap edges, light crimping at the edges of the spine, and light edge wear. Seller Inventory # 000766

Bibliographic Details

Title: Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The ...

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

The award of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai has focused the attention of the free world on the Chinese oppression of the Tibetans in their homeland. Now, in his autobiography their leader, the 14th Dalai Lama in Tibet, describes the appalling sequence of events which led up to their suppression. In his own words he describes what it was like to grow up revered as a deity in the land of snows, how in 1959 he was forced into exile through a highly daring escape plan, how since then in the Indian Himalayan village of Dharamsala he has devoted himself to rebuilding the shattered lives of the 100,000 refugees who followed him into exile. He tells of the deals struck with the CIA, his encounters with world leaders like Mao and Nehru, and the Pope; he discusses both science and Tibetan Buddhism. His narrative is a blend of mystery and adventure, of insight and intrigue.

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Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet