Introduction

Continental cataclysm

Buddhism comes to Tibet

Clucking like a hen and breaking up fights

From a prankster to the Dalai Llama reincarnate

Farewell to the worldly world

Lhasa in turmoil

Tibet's new ruler is not all of 5 years?

India, China and Tibet

Suggestions of fratricide

New gods in Tibet

Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, India

Mao, Buddhism and Tantra

To talk or not to talk

The nobel laureate : Ghandi's successor

Life after Nobel

Unyielding Chinese and uncompromising Tibetans

Murders in the monastery

The Dalai Lama, the man

The Dalai Lama, the monk

The Dalai Lama, the mystic

Part socratic, part rock star, part eastern wise man, mostly Buddhist monk

Sex, sexuality, homosexuality and celibacy

The last Dalai Lama?

Twilight years

Uncertain future

Models of autonomy

Han Chinese turn to Buddhism

Will he ever return to Tibet?

Personal impressions.