Freedom in Exile

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama is the second

Freedom in Exile
autobiography of the 14th Dalai Lama, released in 1991. The Dalai Lama's first
autobiography, My Land and My People, was published in 1962, a few years after he
reestablished himself in India and before he became an international celebrity. He
regards both of the autobiographies as authentic and re-issued My Land and My
People in 1997 to coincide with the release of the filmKundun.[1]

Contents
Background
Synopsis
Reception
Notes

Background Author 14th Dalai Lama

In the introduction, the Dalai Lama explains that he wrote the book "to counter Language English
Chinese claims and misinformation" about the history of Tibet.[1][2] The title
Genre Autobiography
fers to him.[3]
"Freedom in exile" refers to the freedoms he says that India of
Publisher Harper San
The idea for a second autobiography came from a British journalist, Alexander Francisco
Norman, in the 1980s, who sat and taped the Dalai Lama for "several hours at a Publication 1991
time" and wrote the book out of themanuscripts.[2] date
Media type Print
Synopsis Preceded by My Life and My
The autobiography starts with the Dalai Lama's "birth to a family of small farmers",
People
selection as the Dalai Lama, tumultuous relationship with the People's Republic of
China (in which he claims many atrocities), and subsequent life in India. The book acknowledges "the cultural gaps between
traditional Tibetan Buddhism and the scientific approaches of the West", but has been criticized in the West for not having much
religious content.[2]

The autobiography also criticizes the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for supporting the Tibetan independence movement
"not because they (the CIA) cared about Tibetan independence, but as part of their worldwide efforts to destabilize all communist
governments".[4]

Reception
Freedom in Exile was timed to be released around the anti-Communist Revolutions of 1989, and the Dalai Lama's winning of the
[2]
1989 Nobel Peace Prize. In a review, Rembert Weakland called the book "a political one" and "a call for freedom".

Notes
 1. McMillin, Laurie Hovell (2001).English in Tibet, Tibet in English: Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora.
Palgrave Macmillan. p. 175.
2. Weakland, Rembert G. (1990-09-30). "We Must Change Our Lives"(https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res
=9c0ce0df1f3cf933a0575ac0a966958260). The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
3. 14th Dalai Lama (2009-03-31). Thank You India! (http://www.indianfolklore.org/journals/index.php/Ish/article/downloa
d/606/795). National Folklore Support Centre. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
4. "CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in '60s, FilesShow" (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/15/news/mn-22993) . The
Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 September 2013. "In his 1990 autobiography, "Freedom in Exile," the Dalai Lama
explained that his two brothers made contact with the CIA during a trip to India in 1956. The CIA agreed to help, "not
because they cared about Tibetan independence, but as part of their worldwide efforts to destabilize all Communist
governments," the Dalai Lama wrote."

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