Title : The Lord of the White Lotus - The Dalai Lama - Claude Levenson - book

Summary :

The Lord of the White Lotus, Ocean of Wisdom, The Precious Victorious, The Incomparable Master, or simply, The Presence: these are some of the titles that Tibetans give to the most illustrious and venerated among them, the Dalai Lama, god-king, an exceptional being, long surrounded by legends and mysteries. Claude B. Levenson set out in search of this presence. This quest took her from one side of the Himalayas to the other, from Tibet inland to Tibet in exile, and led her, inexorably, to Tenzin Gyatso: the Dalai Lama, with whom long hours of interviews allowed her to restore the multiple facets of an extraordinary personality, to retrace the prodigious romance of a life - how a turbulent toddler born into a modest peasant family was recognized as the fourteenth incarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. But also to reveal the cardinal foundations of a great civilization threatened with annihilation by the Chinese invasion. This is not an edifying book on the life of the Living God but a true immersion into the interior of the world, that of Tibet on the borders of China. Irina de Chikoff, Le Figaro.

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