Dalai Lama / Gyatso, Tenzin - FREEDOM IN EXILE. The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama.

New York, A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book / HarperCollins, 1990. 1st printing 288 pp. halfcloth with dustjacket. The Dalai Lama's autobiography should leave no one in doubt of his humility and genuine compassion. The exiled leader of Tibet recounts his life, from the time he was whisked away from his home in 1939 at the age of 4, to his treacherous escape from Tibet in 1959, to his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. The backdrop of the story is the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet. He calmly relates details of imprisonment, torture, rape, famine, ecological disaster, and genocide that under four decades of Chinese rule have left 1.25 million Tibetans dead and the Tibetan natural and religious landscapes decimated. Yet the Dalai Lama's story is strangely one of hope. very good condition