The Magical Play of Illusion

the long version

"This is the autobiography of one of the Dalai Lama's two tutors, a translation from the original Tibetan that was published in 1975. Trijang Rinpoche (1901-81) was educated in Tibet, traveled with the Dalai Lama on his trip to China in 1954, and became a central figure in the preservation of Tibetan culture among the Tibetan exile community in India after the 1959 diaspora. He also traveled to Europe twice in the 1960s, meeting the Pope, among others, as the Dalai Lama's representative"--