Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $28.00
ISBN13: 9780063391390
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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In this unique Dalai Lama memoir offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections--some never shared before--His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.
The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People's Republic of China for about his entire life. He 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--Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping--in his efforts to protect Tibet and its people, documenting the complex Sino-Tibetan relations 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 nonviolent 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. This book captures the Dalai Lama's extraordinary life journey--discovering what it means to lose your home to a repressive invader and to build a life in exile; dealing with the existential crisis of a nation, its people, and its culture and religion; and envisioning the path forward.
Voice for the Voiceless is a powerful testimony from a global icon, who shares both his pain and his enduring hope in his people's ongoing quest to restore dignity and freedom.
In these pages, His Holiness the Dalai Lama reflects on:
- A Leader in Exile: How a spiritual leader preserved his compassion and humanity while building a new life for his people far from their homeland.
- Decades of Dialogue: A firsthand account of personal meetings and fraught negotiations with China's leaders, from a tense encounter with Mao Zedong to the challenges posed by Xi Jinping.
- The Fight for a Nation: The unresolved struggle for Tibet's freedom, detailing the ongoing efforts to protect a unique culture, language, and religion from erasure.
- Geopolitical Reflections: Never-before-shared insights on the complex geopolitics of Asia, the long-term consequences of the occupation, and the path forward for Tibet.
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