The Dalai Lama: A Biography

by Claude B. Levenson

Book Overview

Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195656504
• ISBN13: 9780195656503
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"