Portrait of a Dalai Lama
The Life & Times of the Great Thirteenth

By Charles Bell
October 2000
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
ISBN: 81-215-0944-0
$42.50 Hardcover

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Thubten Gyatso, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, was born to a peasant family in 1876. He was discovered, brought to Lhasa and enthroned at the age of three. Educated as a monk, he took over full power when he was eighteen and ruled until his death thirty-seven years later. His rule would prove to be more strong, more radical and more complete than that of any Dalai Lama since the Great Fifth.

Biography; History

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