Helene galen (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and inscribed on title page for Jamie Kabler and Helene Galen--visible in photo. Fine book in a fine jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED on title page and additionally signed and inscribed for Jamie Kabler and Helene Galen--visible in photo. Fine book in a near fine slipcase that has a trace of rubbing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition burgundy boards, gold front cover decoration, black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Foreword and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates and maps. "Among world leaders there is no one like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, religious and secular head of Tibet and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. And there can be few books like this one, his full, frank, and stirring autobiography. It tells the story of his extraordinary life and that of his ancient, mysterious, wonderful, and recently tragic country. The Dalai Lama describes his unusual childhood: in 1938, at age two, he was recognized through a traditional process of "discovery" to be the fourteenth reincarnation of the Dalai Lama; taken away from his parents, he was then brought up in Lhasa according to a monastic regimen of rigorus austerity and in almost total isolation. At fifteen, with his country under threat from the newly communist China, he was invested with full powers as head of the state of Tibet, a country the size of western Europe. Over the next traumatic decade, he became the confidant of both Chairman Mao and Jawaharlal Nehru as he tried desperately to maintain autonomy for his people. Finally, in 1959, he was forced into exile, escaping, in a daring plan, to the Himalayan village of Dharamsala. Over 100,000 destitute refugees followed. During his exile he has devoted himself to rebuilding the shattered lives of his fellow refugees and to promoting world peace through an unwavering policy of nonviolence. The Dalai Lama takes us inside the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism, with its supernatural elements, reincarnated Lamas, and ascetic life-style. He tells, with charm and often with humor, what it was like to grow up as a revered deity among his people, sharing with us his inner feelings about what it means to be the Dalai Lama and the contrast in his own life between his interest in science and his adherence to Tibetan traditions such as oracles. And he explains his ideas on the environment, at the very heart of his philosophy. Among his political experiences, the Dalai Lama reveals the secret deals struck with the CIA as Tibet continued its struggle for independence. He talks freely of the many world leaders he has known as he has traveled the world, telling the story of his country. And, while acknowledging his debt to the West, he gives his views on the spiritual crises we are faced with today." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Stuart, Neil (jacket design); Rowell, Galen (jacket photograph); Berinsky, Helene (book design) (illustratore).…