The Dalai Lama : : Man, Monk, and Mystic

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Introduction -- Continental cataclysm -- Buddhism comes to Tibet -- Clucking like a hen and breaking up fights -- From a prankster to the Dalai Llama reincarnate -- Farewell to the worldly world -- Lhasa in turmoil -- Tibet's new ruler is not all of 5 years? -- India, China and Tibet -- Suggestions of fratricide -- New gods in Tibet -- Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India -- Mao, Buddhism and Tantra -- To talk or not to talk -- The nobel laureate : Ghandi's successor -- Life after Nobel -- Unyielding Chinese and uncompromising Tibetans -- Murders in the monastery -- The Dalai Lama, the man -- The Dalai Lama, the monk -- The Dalai Lama, the mystic -- Part socratic, part rock star, part eastern wise man, mostly Buddhist monk -- Sex, sexuality, homosexuality and celibacy -- The last Dalai Lama? -- Twilight years -- Uncertain future -- Models of autonomy -- Han Chinese turn to Buddhism -- Will he ever return to Tibet? -- Personal impressions.

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