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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
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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