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Boy on the Lion Throne
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

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Boy on the Lion Throne

The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama

Flash Point (Mar 03, 2009)
9781596433946
146 pages | 161 x 236 mm
Dewey 294.3/0923092
LC Classification BQ7935.B77 .K56 2009
LC Control No. 2010549122

Subject

  • Juvenile Nonfiction

Plot

From humble beginnings to world leader, a new biography focuses on the childhood of the Dalai Lama, as his country remains at the center of the world stage.On a quiet winter morning in 1937, several men on horseback rode into the tiny Tibetan village of Taktser. Disguised as peasants, the high lamas were on a secret mission--soon they would identify 3-year-old Lhamo Thondup as the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama himself, this dramatic narrative follows his remarkable childhood, illuminating the story of Tibet and introducing a remarkable world figure to a new generation.