Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People [Paperback]

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In this unique autobiography offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflectionssome never shared beforeHis Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.

The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the Peoples Republic of China for about his entire life. He was sixteen years old when Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, only nineteen when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing, and twenty-five when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. In the decades since, he has faced Communist Chinas leadersMao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinpingin his efforts to protect Tibet and its people, with their distinct language, culture, religion, history, and environment, in this profound story of cultural preservation in the face of the greatest possible obstacles.

Now, almost seventy-five years after Chinas initial invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibets unresolved struggle for freedom and the hardship his people continue to face in their own homeland. He offers his thoughts on the geopolitics of the region and shares how he personally was able to preserve his own humanity through the profound losses and challenges that threaten the very survival of the Tibetan people. This compelling memoir captures the Dalai Lamas extraordinary life journeydiscovering what it means to lose your home to a repressive invader and to build a life in exile; dealing with the existential crisis of a nation, its people, and its culture and religion; and envisioning the path forward.

Voice for the Voiceless LPis a powerful testimony from a global icon, who shares both his pain and his enduring hope in his peoples ongoing quest to restore dignity and freedom.

Inside this landmark testimony, His Holiness reveals:

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