My Land And My People

Description for MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE: THE ORIGINAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA OF TIBET with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by Melissa Mathison Ford:

In the Himalayan city Of Lhasa, the four-year-old son of a humble farmer sat on a huge gilded throne. His childhood would be unimaginable in both its isolation and a people's adoration. His destiny would be on of immense tragedy and the awesome transformation of a man.

Written by the Dalai Lama as a young man in exile, this dignified testament re-creates the miraculous search that identified him as the reincarnated leader of his country. It paints a rare, intimate portrait of Tibetan Buddhism---a way of life that would end with a terrifying foreign invasion surpassing sanity and reason and it reveals the evolution of a man from a gentle monk to a world leader. One struggling to this day to free his country...one able to touch our hearts with the goodness that makes him of the most beloved men of our time.