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 ...