How has their society changed in freedom? Klemens Ludwig describes the development of the exile community by using typical examples from India, Nepal and Europe. The book features Tempa Tsering, the Dalai Lama’s brother-in-law and foreign minister for many years, Kelsang Gyaltsen, the Dalai Lama’s representative in the EU, and Wangpo Tethong, President of the Tibetan National Olympic Committee, to name but a few.
„When the iron bird flies and the horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the world, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red men.”
This prophecy of Padmasambhava, who established Buddhism in Tibet in the late eighth century, proved true in 1958, when the Dalai Lama was forced to leave Tibet and 120,000 of his fellow countrymen followed him into exile.
Klemens Ludwig, born in 1955, is a freelance author and journalist working for print media and radio. He was the Asia consultant of the „Society for Threatened Peoples” and is committed to the German Tibet Initiative (Tibet Initiative Deutschland). 2006 saw the publication of the fourth edition of his manual „Tibet”, and his biography of the Dalai-Lama appeared in March 2008. www.tibet-ludwig.de.