Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother’s Story

This is the story of a remarkable woman as she recounts in her own words what it was like to realize her son was being received as a living Buddha, to watch him grow physically and spiritually, and finally to see him become one of the most recognized people in the world. Known now as the Grandmother of Tibet, Diki Tsering was born into a poor peasant family in 1901, the year of the iron ox: and married at the age of sixteen. In Dalai Lama, My Son, she tells her own amazing story and that of her son in his formative years. She recalls. His Holiness’s unfolding personality and Buddhist upbringing; the visitors who came to her town seeking the new Dalai Lama; the move to Lhasa, and the years there until the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the family’s escape and ultimate exile. Beautifully illustrated with family photographs, this glimpse into the origins of the Dalai Lama personalizes the history of the Tibetan people, the magic of their culture, the role of their women, and their ancient ideals of compassion, faith and equanimity.