The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy : : Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet / / Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Gyari, Lodi Gyaltsen,
• MitwirkendeR: Green, Michael J.,; Green, Michael,; Lingpa, Rigdzin Jikme,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari spent decades drawing attention to the plight of the Tibetan people and striving for resolution of the Tibetan-Chinese conflict. He was the Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy and chief negotiator with the People’s Republic of China in the formal negotiations over the status of Tibet. In this revealing memoir, Gyari chronicles his lifetime of service to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause.Gyari recounts his work conducting formal dialogue with the Chinese leadership from 2002 to 2012, as well as his efforts during the many years of quiet diplomacy preceding these historic negotiations. He details the fits and starts of the parties’ relationship, addressing successes as well as failures and highlighting misperceptions, missteps, and missed opportunities by both sides. Gyari grounds his recollections of his time as Special Envoy in his life experience, providing a powerful account of the personal side of Tibet’s struggles. He describes the Tibetan resistance to the Chinese invasion and the tumultuous early years of the Tibetan community in exile as well as his family’s history and spiritual lineage. A reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist lama forced to flee Tibet during the Chinese invasion, Gyari illuminates how his political efforts fulfilled his spiritual calling.Informed by his unparalleled experiences, Gyari offers realizable—but provocative—recommendations for restarting the Tibetan-Chinese dialogue to achieve a mutually beneficial resolution of the issue. For all readers interested in Tibet’s complex modern history, this book offers an incomparable look inside the decades-long effort to achieve the Dalai Lama’s vision of a reunited Tibet.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Gratitude -- Preface -- Homage -- Entering the City of Omniscience: An Aspiration Prayer for Actualizing Words of Truth -- Foreword -- PART I Land of My Ancestors -- Chapter 1 History of Nyarong, Kham, My Birthplace -- Chapter 2 The Gyari Family: Descendants of Nyarong Gönpo Namgyal -- Chapter 3 My Spiritual Lineage: The Mindrolling Tradition and Lumorab Monastery -- Chapter 4 The Gyaritsang’s Involvement in the Tibetan Resistance -- Chapter 5 Our Flight from Nyarong -- Chapter 6 The Journey to Lhasa -- Chapter 7 From Mindrolling to Exile in India -- PART II Tibet Restored: Reuniting the Tibetan People -- Chapter 8 A Unified Tibet: Centerpiece of the Tibetan Struggle -- Chapter 9 Tibetan Exile Organizations: Too Often Compromised by Conflicting Agendas and Personality Disputes -- Chapter 10 Repercussions from Divisions Within the Tibetan Community in Exile -- Chapter 11 Tibetans Inside Tibet: Flag Bearers of a Unified Tibet -- PART III Thirty Years of Engagement with the PRC -- Introduction -- Chapter 12 The Early Years 1979–1984 -- Chapter 13 Tibet’s Rise to Prominence on the International Stage: Adoption of the Middle Way Approach -- Chapter 14 Developing United States Support for Tibet -- Chapter 15 India, Our Home Away from Home -- Chapter 16 Assistance from Other Asian Nations, Europe, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Dharma Centers -- Chapter 17 The 1990s Renewal of Efforts to Engage Beijing -- Chapter 18 Fits and Starts: Reengaging the United Front -- Chapter 19 Formal Dialogue Begins -- Chapter 20 Nine Rounds of Dialogue -- Chapter 21 Status of Relationship, Obstacles to Reconnection, and Recommendations -- Appendix A: Na-gan Thumoche: The Great Oath of Unity -- Appendix B Tibetan Policy Act -- Appendix C: Selected Press Releases -- Appendix D: Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People (Translated from the original Tibetan) -- Appendix E: Note on the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index