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The Dalai Lama the soul of Tibet

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Summary: One of the world's most admired men, he is the spiritual and secular leader of a nation that exists only in exile. Born Tenzin Gyatso, he is the fourteenth man recognized by his people as Buddha's reincarnation and honored with the title he is known by worldwide - the Dalai Lama. Since 1959, when he fled his nation after a failed rebellion against the occupying Chinese, he has lived in exile. Follow the Dalai Lama from his childhood in the "Lost Kingdom" to today. Interviews with Chinese scholars, Tibet activists including actor Richard Gere and His Holiness himself detail the long struggle to free Tibet. See footage of the defining moments of his life including accepting the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.

Record details

ISBN: 0767078772
Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
1 videodisc (44 min.) : | videorecording] : 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Burlington, VT : A & E Home Video ; New York, NY : Distributed by New Video, [2005].

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally broadcast on the television show Biography in 1997.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator: Martha Teichner; interviews with: Orville Schell, Robert A.F. Thurman, John Avedon, Alexander Norman, Richard Gere, Jonathan Spence, Jeffrey Hopkins, Lodi Gyari, Tom Lantos.
System Details Note:	DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.