The story of Tibet
Subtitle: conversations with the Dalai Lama
By: Thomas Laird
Contributors: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781843541448; 9781843545385
Subjects: Interviews; History; Religion
Description: Journalist Thomas Laird spend more than 60 hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in interviews that covered his beliefs about history, science, reincarnation and Buddhism. Laird brings these meetings to life in a historical narrative that outlines thousands of years of Tibetan civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. First Tibetans; title: Ch. 2. First Tibetan Emperor, 600-650; title: Ch. 3. Tibetan Empire and the spread of Buddhism in Tibet, 650-820; title: Ch. 4. Lang Darma : decline, revolt, and a period of chaos, 797-977; title: Ch. 5. Dharma returns, and Buddhist orders are born, 978-1204; title: Ch. 6. Mongol overlords and the seeds of a problem, 1207-1368; title: Ch. 7. Master plan : the first to the fourth Dalai Lamas, 1357-1617; title: Ch. 8. Fifth Dalai Lama and the rise of the Manchu, 1617-1720; title: Ch. 9. Sixth to the twelfth Dalai Lamas, 1705-1900; title: Ch. 10. Thirteenth Dalai Lama, 1876-1933; title: Ch. 11. Early life of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, 1935-1950; title: Ch. 12. Life under Chinese occupation, 1951-1959; title: Ch. 13. Since 1959; title: Ch. 14. Epilogue.