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Voice for the voiceless : over seven decades of struggle with China for my land and my people / His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- (author.). Seabrook, Alexis, (cartographer.).

Summary:

"The Dalai Lama was sixteen years old when Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, only nineteen when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing, and twenty-five when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. In the decades since, he has faced Communist China’s leaders in his efforts to protect Tibet and its people, with their distinct language, culture, religion, history, and environment, in the face of the greatest possible obstacles. Now, almost seventy-five years after China’s initial invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibet’s unresolved struggle for freedom and the hardship his people continue to face in their own homeland. He offers his thoughts on the geopolitics of the region and shares how he personally was able to preserve his own humanity through the profound losses and challenges that threaten the very survival of the Tibetan people." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063391390
ISBN: 0063391392
Physical Description: xvi, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Map by Alexis Seabrook"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The invasion and our new master -- Meeting Chairman Mao -- A visit to India -- Fleeing home -- A geopolitical reflection -- Devastation at home and rebuilding in exile -- Overtures toward a dialogue -- Reaching out to our fourth refuge -- In the aftermath of Tiananmen -- Practices I find helpful in the face of suffering -- As the millennium came to an end -- The final series of dialogues -- Taking stock -- What gives me hope -- Situation today and the path forward -- Appeal -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A: Tibet, a historical overview -- Appendix B: Treaty between Tibet and China AD 821-822 -- Appendix C: Letters to Chinese leaders Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin -- Appendix D: Memorandum on genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people -- Appendix E: A note on the "Memorandum on genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people."