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

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Dalai Lama

Voice for the Voiceless

Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People

Dalai Lama

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Collins
11 March 2025

Biography; Memoirs; Asian history; Tibetan Buddhism; Social issues & processes; Political activism

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections--some never shared before--His 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 People's 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 China's leaders--Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping--in his efforts to protect Tibet and its people, with their distinct language, culture, religion, history, and environment, in the face of the greatest possible obstacles.

Now, almost seventy-five years after China's initial invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibet's 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 book captures the Dalai Lama's extraordinary life journey--discovering 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 is a powerful testimony from a global icon, who shares both his pain and his enduring hope in his people's ongoing quest to restore dignity and freedom.

By: Dalai Lama
Imprint: Collins
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780063391390
ISBN 10: 0063391392
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

One of the best-known global figures, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and a powerful symbol of Tibet and its unique civilization. He is an important voice for compassion, and in recognition of his advocacy for world peace and environmental concerns, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He has received numerous other international awards, including the highest civilian honor in the United States, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. Since being called upon to assume the leadership of Tibet, he has worked tirelessly for the freedom and dignity of his people. After fleeing into exile in 1959, the Dalai Lama has lived as a stateless Tibetan in India, a country he calls his second home.

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

""In the twilight of his life, the world's most famous Buddhist monk casts a benign but rueful eye back at the past . . . As an exponent of universal compassion who deals in prayer and oracles and divination, we might say that it is the Dalai Lama's business to appeal to the soul and the spirit, and in Voice for the Voiceless he does so with exceptional grace. Even as he describes one bad setback after another, he gives witness to a tradition of almost unearthly sweetness and magnanimity."" -- Wall Street Journal ""Voice for the Voiceless is more than a political memoir; it is a declaration of Tibetan identity, nonviolent resistance, and survival . . . The journey traced in Voice for the Voiceless is remarkable. . . . . From fleeing Chinese bullets and bombs as a young man to decades later receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his unwavering commitment to nonviolence, the Dalai Lama's story is one of resilience, transformation, and purpose."" -- The Lion's Roar