Question:Who is the author of the book His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography ?
(a) Trisong Detsen
(b) Lobsang Sangay
(c) Tenzin Geyche Tethong
(d) Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
Answer:(c)
Related facts:
- A book titled ‘His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography’ will be released in October 2020 by Roli Books.
- The book is written by Tenzin Geyche Tethong.
- Tenzin Geyche Tethong has been associated with the Dalai Lama for over four decades as his close aide and advisor.
- The biographyfeatures a personal message by the spiritual leader decorated with some 400 rare pictures and documents.
- The book illustrates the journey of Dalai Lama leading from the early years, when he led a sheltered yet rigorous existence spent between the Potala and Norbulingka palaces, to the complex and increasingly dangerous relationship with communist China.
- The book gives us a glimpse into an important slice of history before the Dalai Lama was forced to flee to India in March 1959.
- The Dalai Lama, who now lives in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, fled from Tibet and came to India at the age of 23.
- His teachings of peace and non-violence and freedom has won him the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1989.
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay