The Dalai Lama
Subtitle: Soul of Tibet
By: produced by CBS News Productions for A&E Network ; producer, Brooke Runnette
Contributors: Schell, Orville; Thurman, Robert A. F.; Avedon, John F.; Norman, Alexander; Barry, Michael; Harris, Julian; A & E Home Video (Firm); New Video Group
Series: Biography; Biography (A & E Home Video (Firm))
Publisher: A & E Home Video; Distributed by New Video
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Burlington, VT; New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780767078771
Subjects: Leadership; Buddhism; Political refugees
Other titles: Biography (Television program)
Description: One of the world's most admired men, he is the spiritual and secular leader of a nation that exists only in exile. Born Tenzin Gyatso, he is the fourteenth man recognized by his people as Buddha's reincarnation and honored with the title he is known by worldwide - the Dalai Lama. Since 1959, when he fled his nation after a failed rebellion against the occupying Chinese, he has lived in exile. Follow the Dalai Lama from his childhood in the "Lost Kingdom" to today. Interviews with Chinese scholars, Tibet activists including actor Richard Gere and His Holiness himself detail the long struggle to free Tibet. See footage of the defining moments of his life including accepting the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.
Notes: Originally broadcast on television in 1997.

Camera, Michael Barry ... [et al.] ; editor, Andrea Gurwitt ; original music, Julian Harris.

Narrator: Martha Teichner; interviews with: Orville Schell, Robert A.F. Thurman, John Avedon, Alexander Norman, Richard Gere, Jonathan Spence, Jeffrey Hopkins, Lodi Gyari, Tom Lantos.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.