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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017
First published in the United States by William Morrow in 2017
AN APPEAL TO THE WORLD. Copyright © 2017 by Benevento Publishing – a brand of Red Bull Media House. All rights reserved.
Originally published in a slightly different form as Der Appell des Dalai Lama an die Welt in Germany in 2015 by Benevento Publishing.
Cover
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Designed by Fritz Metsch
Photograph, here, by Bigi Alt
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Source ISBN: 9780008278427
Ebook Edition © November 2017 ISBN: 9780008278434
Version: 2017-10-16
Contents
Preface: “I Don’t Have Any Enemies” by Franz Alt
An Appeal by the Dalai Lama for Secular Ethics and Peace
Educating the Heart: A Conversation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
On the Preservation of Tibetan Culture
On the Return of the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama Story: An Inspiring Life
The Dalai Lama: A Life in Dates
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA and Dr. Franz Alt will be donating all royalties from this little book to German Aid to Tibetans.
“I DON’T HAVE any enemies, only people I haven’t met yet,” the Dalai Lama told me over 20 years ago. He also said, “We have the most to learn from our enemies. In a way, they are our best teachers.” So wise and yet so realistic are the words of the most prominent refugee in the world – and also one of the oldest – after 58 years of exile in India. Even though he has been forced to live outside his Chinese-occupied homeland since 1959,