Becoming the Dalai Lama

10/05/20 • 29 min

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October 8, 1939. In the Tibetan city of Lhasa, thousands of people have flooded into the streets to welcome the next Dalai Lama, a young boy of 4 years old. He doesn't know it yet, but he'll become the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people at the age of 15, right in the middle of a war. How does someone so young prepare for something so big? And what can the Dalai Lama's very unusual life teach the rest of us about what it means to be a leader?

Thank you to our guest, Thomas Laird, author of "The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama".

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Thank you to our guest, Thomas Laird, author of "The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama".

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