My Land and My People Book

This is one heart-wrenching story. Although I grew up hearing almost every details mentioned in the book, like any other Tibetan kid born into exile, reading the book written by the very man made it a whole new story. It overwhelmed me, tore my heart and had me weep.

You come to realize that your life and all those self-acclaimed tragedies that you have so far made a list of, doesn't come as near to what His Holiness had to experience. If anything, you are just an undeviating product of what happened to Tibet and to the Dalai Lama more than 50 years ago. On the one hand, this book has made me aware of my significance, my role as a Tibetan and my belonging to this tragic modern history of my fatherland. Yet, on the other hand, it has humbled me down, almost making me feel negligible to my own eyes, like the meaning of my own life and that of my father's and mother's has really come to have nothing if it wasn't for our Tibet and His Holiness.

This is a must read for anyone who is interested in Tibet, His Holiness and our struggle for genuine autonomy.