Dalai Lama, My Son is the compelling story of Diki Tsering, the mother of the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. Born to humble but prosperous peasants, Diki Tsering had a traditional Tibetan upbringing. Married at sixteen, she had the ordinary ambition of being a good housewife and mother. But when she was told that her son, Lhamo Dhondup - just a little over a year old at the time - was to be the fourteenth Dalai Lama, her world was turned upside down. Dalai Lama, My Son is a portrait of a long-lost rural Tibetan way of life, as well as a fascinating blend of social, political and cultural history. But it is, above all, a unique, absorbing and personal account of a mother's love.
