Freedom in exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama.

323 Pages·1991·10.04 MB·English

by  Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho

FREEDOM IN EXILE

FREEDOM
IN EXILE
T H E A U T O B I O G R A P H Y OF TH E
DALAI LAMA
A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book
An Imprint ofHarperCoWmsPublishers
This book was first published in Great Britain in 1990 by Hoddcr and
Stoughton Ltd. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Hodder and
Stoughton Ltd.
FREEDOM IN EXILE. Copyright © 1990 by Tenzin Gyatso, the Four­
teenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. All rights reserved. Printed in the United
States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in
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Designed by Helene Berinsky
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Freedom in Exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama,
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-039116-2
1. Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- 2. Dalai lamas—
Biography. I. Title.
BQ7935.B777A3 1990
294.3'923'092—dc20
[B]__________________________________________________ 89-46523
CONTENTS
Illustrations vii
Maps ix
Foreword xiii
1 — HOLDER OF THE WHITE LOTUS 1
2 ■— THE LION THRONE 16
3 —TNVASION: THE STORM BREAKS 49
4— REFUGE IN THE SOUTH 58
5— -IN COMMUNIST CHINA 82
6 — MR NEHRU REGRETS 103
7 — ESCAPE INTO EXILE 123
8 — A DESPERATE YEAR 144
9— 100,000 REFUGEES 161
10 — A WOLF IN MONK’S ROBES 176
11— FROM EAST TO WEST 194
12 — OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY’ 209
13 — THE NEWS FROM TIBET 221
14— INITIATIVES FOR PEACE 238
15 — UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY
AND THE GOOD HEART 254
Index 273
v

ILLUSTRATIONS
BETWEEN PAGES 112 AND 113
Myself as a young child (photo © Raghu Rai/Magnum)
My predecessor, Thupten Gyatso, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Brian
Beresford/© Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala)
Reting Rinpoche, the first Regent (Associated Press)
Detail of1,000-armed Chenrezig (Brian Beresford)
The Potala palace (photo by Jon Blair/Camera Press)
My mother (author’s collection)
Myself as a teenager (photo by Amaury de Riencourt/Popperfoto)
Dromo, at the ceremony where I received the relic (photo by Heinrich
Harrer/Camera Press)
Two masked dancers (Tom Graves)
Monks and laymen attending a religious ceremony (Tom Graves)
With the Panchen Lama, flanked by Chu Te and Chou En-lai, on arrival at
Peking railway station, 1954 (Camera Press)
With my tutors, the Kashag, my senior attendants and members of my family
in Peking (Brian Beresford/© Library of Tibetan Works and Archives,
Dharamsala)
In Gangtok with Thondup Namgyal, Maharaj Kumar of Sikkim (Popperfoto)
A rare photo of my complete family (author’s collection)
12 March 1959: the uprising of Tibetan women shown demonstrating in Shol
below the Potala (Popperfoto)
Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS
BETWEEN PAGES 208 AND 209
Escape into exile (Popperfoto) Taken in India just after my arrival, April 1959
(© Marilyn Silvers tone/Magnum)
With Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, Delhi, 7 September
1959 (Popperfoto)
In prayer under the Bodhi Tree (Brian Beresford)
One of the first refugee settlements in India at an early stage (author ’s
collection)
Wearing ceremonial regalia (author’s collection)
Trijang Rinpoche, India 1978 (Brian Beresford)
Ling Rinpoche, at about the same time (Brian Beresford)
The Nechung oracle in trance (author’s collection)
With his Holiness Pope John Paul II, Italy 1982 (L’Osservatorie Romano
Citta’del Vaticano/author’s collection)
With Dr. Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, Britain, 1988 (photo by
Brian Beresford/author’s collection)
Ganden monastery after its destruction by Chinese troops (George Patterson)
Ruins of Toling monastery, now used as a horse corral (Brian Beresford)
The PLA deploy in Lhasa, March 1989 (Brian Beresford)
Monks running for cover, Lhasa, March 1989 (Brian Beresford)
Holding the medal and diploma of the Nobel Prize for Peace, Oslo, 10
December 1989 (Associated Press/NTB/Eystein Hanssen)
MAPS
Tibet and Her Neighbours X
Tibet 4
Major Tibetan Settlements in India 160
(maps drawn by Hanni Bailey)
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