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Work #1166 · Early

My Land and My People

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1962 · English (composed with help of David Howarth)
Autobiography · Tibetan Buddhism / Gelug school / Modern Buddhist exile literature

Tenzin Gyatso's 1962 first autobiography — earliest authoritative English-language account of the Tibetan crisis and exile

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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

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.