num_pages: 292
description: Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilizationbased on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.
language: English
title: The Dalai Lama: A Biography
titlecomplete: The Dalai Lama: A Biography (Oxford India Paperbacks)
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Oxford University Press