{"id":918,"date":"2022-09-23T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=918"},"modified":"2022-09-23T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:29:10","slug":"kundun-a-biography-of-the-family-of-the-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/kundun-a-biography-of-the-family-of-the-dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-919\" width=\"339\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3-1018x1536.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3-1357x2048.jpg 1357w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15-3.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was during the writing of her critically acclaimed book Tears of Blood, chronicling the terrible oppression of Tibet under Chinese occupation, that Mary Craig\u2019s friendship with the Dalai Lama\u2019s family began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of how a four year old Tibetan farmer\u2019s boy was chosen by divination to become the fourteenth Dalai Lama \u2013 \u2018Kundun\u2019 means \u2018Presence of the Buddha\u2019 \u2013 is a fascinating one, but less known is the story of his family, and their extraordinary destiny. This ordinary peasant family had to cope with the fame and greatness thrust upon them, only to be in flight a decade later from the Chinese army of \u2018liberation\u2019. Meticulously researched, and supplemented by personal interviews with the Dalai Lama and his family, this is a tale of a people wrenched from their land by force and of their fight for survival. Those who were impressed by Tears of Blood, will be deeply moved by this epic tale of triumph in adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published by Counterpoint, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama It was during the writing of her critically acclaimed book Tears of Blood, chronicling the terrible oppression of Tibet under Chinese occupation, that Mary Craig\u2019s friendship with the Dalai Lama\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}