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The Dalai Lama

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by Alexander Norman


  the best measure available: See https://books.google.com/ngrams and search under “compassion.” If one further analyzes the number of references to the Dalai Lama in relation to the number of references to Buddhism and compassion, it is notable that the references that associate him with compassion amount to a full 50 percent of the number of references that associate Buddhism with compassion.

  “some one thing”: This is the last sentence of G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy (1908).

  Bibliography

  (A more comprehensive bibliography providing background and history may be found in my Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama.)

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  Avedon, John F. In Exile from the Land of Snows. London: Michael Joseph, 1984.

  Barber, Noel. The Flight of the Dalai Lama. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960.

  Bell, Charles. Portrait of the Dalai Lama. London: Collins, 1946.

  Benson, Herbert, Your Maximum Mind. New York: Avon Books, 1991.

  Brown, Mick. The Dance of Seventeen Lives: The Incredible Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa. London: Bloomsbury, 2005.

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  Byron, Robert. First Russia, Then Tibet. London: Macmillan, 1933.

  Carnahan, Sumner, and Lama Kunga Rinpoche. In the Presence of My Enemies: Memoirs of Tibetan Nobleman Tsipon Shuguba. Sante Fe, NM: Heartsfire Books, 1998.

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  Chapman, Frederick Spencer. Lhasa: The Holy City. London: Chatto & Windus, 1938.

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  Conboy, Kenneth, and James Morrison. The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

  Craig, Mary. Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama. London: HarperCollins, 1997.

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  Dalai Lama XIV. My Land and My People: The Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962.

  ———. Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.

  ———. The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus. London: Rider, 1996.

  ———. Kalachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation. Translated, edited, and introduced by Geoffrey Hopkins. Enlarged edition. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1999.

  ———. Ethics for the New Millennium. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000.

  ———. Speeches of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama (1959–1989). Translated by Sonam Gyatso. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2011.

  ———. The Political Philosophy of the Dalai Lama: Selected Speeches and Writings. Edited by Dr. Subash C. Kashyap. New Delhi: Rupa, 2014.

  ———. The Life of My Teacher: A Biography of Kyabje Ling Rinpoché. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.

  ———. Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics. Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Vol. 1. The Physical World. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.

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  Gelder, Stuart, and Roma Gelder. The Timely Rain. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1964.

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  ———. A History of Modern Tibet. Vol. 2. The Calm Before the Storm, 1951–55. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

  ———. A History of Modern Tibet. Vol. 3. The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–57. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.

  Goldstein, Melvyn C., Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

  Goleman, Daniel. A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

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  Hale, Mark. Himmler’s Crusade: The True Story of the Nazis’ 1938 Expedition into Tibet. London: Bantam Books, 2003.

  Harrer, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet. London: R. Hart-Davis, 1953.

  ———. Return to Tibet. London: Penguin, 1985.

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  Jinpa, Thupten. A Fearless Heart: Why Compassion Is the Key to Greater Wellbeing. London: Piatkus, 2015.

  ———. Self, Reason and Reality in Tibetan Philosophy: Tsongkhapa’s Quest for the Middle Way. London: Routledge Curzon, 2002.

  ———. Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows. Boulder: Shambala, 2019.

  Karmay, Samten. The Illusive Play: The Autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2014.

  Kasho, Jamyang Choegyal. In the Service of the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas. Frankfurt am Main: Tibethaus Deutschland, 2015.

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  Kawaguchi, Ekai. Three Years in Tibet. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909.

  Keegan, Marcia. The Dalai Lama’s Historic Visit to North America. New York: Clear Light Publications, 1981.

  Khedrup, Tashi. Adventures of a Tibetan Fighting Monk. E
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  Khetsun, Tubten. Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule. Translated by Matthew Akester. Delhi: Penguin for Columbia University Press, 2009.

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  ———. “When the Iron Bird Flies: The 1956–1962 Secret War on the Tibetan Plateau.” Unpublished manuscript. Translated by Stacey Mosher.

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  Meyers, William, Robert Thurman, and Michael G. Burbank. Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet. New York: Tibet House, 2016.

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  ———. The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Books, 2000.

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  Index

  A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

  A

  Account of the Protective Deity Dorje Shugden . . . , An, 234

  Adams, Gerry, 301–2

  aes sidhe, 41

  Aga Khan, 237

  Agvan Dorjieff, 6, 7

  Ahnenerbe, 108

  Altan Khan, 4, 312–13

  Amdo province

  borders, 5

  China and, 45–46, 144–45, 152, 159, 166, 211, 354 n49

  Chushi Gangdruk, 168

  collective farming, 171

  Communists in, 125, 130, 211

  Dalai Lama and, 45–46, 291, 375 n218

  dialect, 60–61

  gyalyum chenmo, 254

  Kumbum Monastery, 13–14

  riots, 2008, 307

  search party, 30

  as Tibetan land, 255, 270

  Xunhua Incident, 171

  Amdowas (natives of Amdo), 168

  American Society for Neuroscience, 302–3

  Amnesty International, 283, 301, 382 n301

  Archbishop of Canterbury, 237

  Argentina, 275

  aristocracy

  Communism and, 125, 135, 136–37, 139

  Dalai Lama’s family, 60–61, 92

  education and Buddhadharma, 107

  H
arrer and, 108

  horses and, 22

  inequity in Lhasa, 59

  Kumbela’s recruitment of, 20

  Lungshar, support for, 21, 23

  monks promoted to, 311

  as political target, 192, 310–11

  profits, Chinese invasion, 133

  tulku system, 72–73

  Aristotle, 101, 102

  Arko Lhamo, 88

  Art of Happiness, The (Dalai Lama & Cutler), 301

  Ashkenazi rabbis, 315

  assassinations and attempts

  Dalai Lama (12th), 336–37

  Dalai Lama (Great 13th), 17

  on Hitler, 360 n108

  Indira Gandhi, 224 n

  Lotus-Born, 342

  Panchen Lama, 164, 165, 270

  Taktra Rinpoché, 91–93, 96

  astrological signs, 189, 189 n, 279

  Attenborough, David, xvi

  attendants

  Dalai Lama (12th), 336–37

  Dalai Lama the (Great 13th), 17–18, 34

  Dalai Lama the (14th), xix–xx, 69, 264, 272

  in Dharamsala, 203

  for oracle, 160, 288–89

  on Trijiang Tulku, 83

  See also bodyguards; tutors

  Aufschnaiter, Peter, 107 n, 128

  Auntie Joyce (Joyce Murdoch), 327

  Australia, 315

  B

  Bangladesh, 169, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 327

  Batang Monastery, 9, 10–12

  Beats/Beat generation, 210, 212, 219

 

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