Escape from the land of snows
Subtitle: the young Dalai Lama's harrowing flight to freedom and the making of a spiritual hero
By: Stephan Talty
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780307460950
Description: Documents the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent uprising in Lhasa between Tibetan rebels and Chinese occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist spiritual leader endured.