tibet (china)

Text and photographs present a biography of the Tibetan leader, discussing his religious and political life.

Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. During a trip he comes upon an accident when suddenly two people are shot in an approaching car. One is the Chinese minister of tourism and the other a blond westerner. The blond dies in his arms but when Shan tries to report the death he is told she did not die. As he looks for the killer he discovers that the fate of his son is bound up in his search.

Provides information about the history of Tibet and the life of its spiritual leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and includes an interview with the Dalai Lama, as well as an overview of the Tibetan form of Buddhism.

The autobiography of the Dalai Lama who won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.

Describes the origin and beliefs of Tibetan Buddhism and the life of the Dalai Lama who was forced into exile after the Chinese invaded Tibet.

Recounts her journey into China and the high country of Tibet in 1980.

The author tells about his adventures traveling with a French photographer on a journey of a lifetime into an obscure and forbidden area of southern Tibet in search of the Drung people, a minority population that had not been visited by a Westerner in over a century.