Dalai Lama, my son
Subtitle: a mother's story
By: Diki Tsering ; edited and introduced by her grandson, Khedroob Thondup.
Contributors: Thondup, Khedroob, 1952-
Series: Compass books
Publisher: Viking/Arkana
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Tsering, Diki, 1901-; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- -- Family.; Tibet (China) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Born to humble but prosperous peasants in 1901, the Year of the Iron Ox, Diki Tsering grew up a simple girl with a simple life and the ordinary ambition to be a good wife and mother. When faith and fate led her son Lhamo Dhondup to be recognized as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, her world altered completely.".

"In Dalai Lama, My Son, she recounts her own story from her early life with her extended family and siblings to the customs and rituals of old Tibet and her arranged marriage at age sixteen. She vividly recalls the births of her children and their Buddhist upbringing; His Holiness's unfolding personality; the visitors who came to her town to seek the new Dalai Lama; the family's arduous move to Lhasa; and the years there until the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the family's escape and eventual exile.".

"This glimpse into the origins of the Dalai Lama personalizes the history of the Tibetan people, the magic of their culture, the role of their women, and their ancient ideals of compassion, faith, and equanimity."--BOOK JACKET.