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In this unique book His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his seventy-five-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the Peoples Republic of China his entire life. He was fifteen years old when communist China invaded Tibet in 1950 only nineteen when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing and twenty-four when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. Almost seventy-five years after Chinas initial invasion of Tibet the Dalai Lama has faced communist Chinas leaders such as Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Jiang Zemin Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping in his effort to protect Tibet and its people. In Voice for the Voiceless the Dalai Lama reminds the world of Tibets unresolved struggle for freedom and the hardship his people continue to face in their homeland. The book captures his extraordinary life uncovering what it means to lose your home to a repressive invader and build a life in exile dealing with the existential crisis of a nation its people and its culture and religion and envisioning the path forward. Voice for the Voiceless is a powerful testimony from a global icon sharing both his pain and his enduring hope in his peoples ongoing quest to restore dignity and freedom.