Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari. The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy : Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet. Cambridge: HarperCollins India and Columbia University Press, 2022 and 2023. 800 pp. Paperback and Hardback, ISBN 9789356296749, 9780231206488. INR 799/3,886 (Paperback and Hardback) and USD 400 (Hardback)
Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, or Gyari Rinpoche as he was known to many, was a man of many roles and responsibilities, but history will perhaps remember him most as the Dalai Lama’s Chief Interlocutor to Beijing. In his memoir, The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet, Gyari Rinpoche provides an insider’s perspective on one of the most complex and delicate diplomatic undertakings in the Tibetan struggle: the Sino-Tibetan dialogue and also highlights the invasion of Tibet by Beijing in the 1950’s through his own eyes and experience.
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