SuitabookWho is the Dalai Lama?
Dana Meachen Rau
- Reading
- Read together and pause at the shift from life in Tibet to exile in India; invite questions about what is clear and what the book leaves unexplained.
- Themes
- Tibetan leadership and self-government: The biography describes the Dalai Lama becoming leader of Tibet, leaving for India after the 1959 uprising, and pursuing self-government. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- These historical events may merit conversation, though their level of detail is unclear.