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Dalai Lama : man, monk, mystic / Mayank Chhaya.

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Van Pelt Library BQ7935.B777 C44 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chhaya, Mayank.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-.
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho.
Dalai lamas--Biography.
Dalai lamas.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Doubleday, [2007]
Contents:
Introduction
Continental cataclysm
Buddhism comes to Tibet
Clucking like a hen and breaking up fights
From a prankster to the Dalai Lama reincarnate
Farewell to the worldly world
Lhasa in turmoil
Tibet's new ruler is not all of 5 years?
India, China and Tibet
Suggestions of fratricide
New gods in Tibet
Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India
Mao, Buddhism and Tantra
To talk or not to talk
The nobel laureate : Ghandi's successor
Life after Nobel
Unyielding Chinese and uncompromising Tibetans
Murders in the monastery
The Dalai Lama, the man
The Dalai Lama, the monk
The Dalai Lama, the mystic
Part socratic, part rock star, part eastern wise man, mostly Buddhist monk
Sex, sexuality, homosexuality and celibacy
The last Dalai Lama?
Twilight years
Uncertain future
Models of autonomy
Han Chinese turn to Buddhism
Will he ever return to Tibet?
Personal impressions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-333) and index.
ISBN:
9780385519458
0385519451
OCLC:
70803309

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