Dalai Lama: A Biography
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Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789385505621
Length
272p., 22cm.
Subjects
Dalai Lama, Tibet's political leader, has strived to make Tibet an independent and democratic state from China. Following the Chinese Invasion of Tibet in 1959 he and his followers have been exiled to India. The Dalai Lamas are believed by Tibetan Buddhist followers to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are believed to be enlightened beings who have postponed their own ...
