Dalai Lama: A voice for the disenfranchised

"My more than seven decades of confrontation with China | For my homeland and my people"

In his personal, spiritual and historical reflections - some of which have never been published - His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people.

The Dalai Lama has struggled with China for most of his life. He was sixteen when China annexed his country in 1950. At nineteen, he sat opposite Chairman Mao before having to flee into exile in India at the age of twenty-five. Since then, he has stood up to China's leaders - Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping - and fought against the greatest obstacles for Tibet, its unique language, culture, religion, history and landscape.

Three quarters of a century after the first Chinese invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibet's ongoing struggle for freedom - and of the hardships his people continue to face. He describes his view of the geopolitical situation in the region and reveals how he was able to preserve his humanity despite all the circumstances. His book is the story of an extraordinary life. It shows what it means to lose your home to a repressive occupier and what it means to deal with the existential crisis of a country and not lose faith in a future solution.

A Voice for the Disenfranchised is the powerful testimony of a world icon, in which the Dalai Lama expresses both his pain and the unwavering hope he places in the Tibetan people's quest to regain their dignity and freedom.

China-Tibet Conflict | Politics of Peace and Freedom - Voice for the Voiceless