Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
My Land and My People
Tenzin Gyatso's 1962 first autobiography — earliest authoritative English-language account of the Tibetan crisis and exile
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | My Land and My People (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
My Land and My People
The 1935-1962 narrative arc; the Tibetan religious-philosophical tradition.
Space
My Land and My People
Tibet and the early-exile Dharamsala setting.
Matter
My Land and My People
The embodied Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community in early exile.
Observer
My Land and My People
The Dalai Lama as autobiographical subject and proper political-religious witness.
Energy
My Land and My People
The religious-political energies of the Tibetan exile-establishment.
Information
My Land and My People
The autobiographical content of the early-exile narrative.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
My Land and My People was widely circulated as the Tibetan exile community's major early-1960s appeal to international opinion; the political-historical framework remains contested by Chinese official narratives.