"Tragedy in Crimson" is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson's extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet's slowly vanishing culture; and he travels alongside the Dalai Lama in the campaigns for Tibetan sovereignty. Johnson unpacks how China is using its economic power around the globe to assail the Free Tibet movement. By encouraging massive Chinese migration and restricting Tibetan civil rights, the Chinese are also working to dilute Tibetan culture within Tibet itself. He also takes a sympathetic but unsentimental look at the Dalai Lama, a popular figure in the West who is regarded as a failure by many of his own people. Staggering in scope, vivid and audacious in its narrative aims, "Tragedy in Crimson" tells the story of a people on the brink of cultural extinction and the rising nation that is quashing them.

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding , kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and above all, world peace.

	Contents: Gragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World But Lost the Battle with China
	Maps	viii
	Introduction	xi
1	The Big Gamble	1
2	On Tibet's Periphery	27
3	Riding the Rails to Tibet	49
4	Holy City or Devil's Land	75
5	Over the Himalayas	99
6	Dharamsala	117
7	The Karmapa	137
8	The Princess	159
9	Wolves at the Door	185
10	Getting Religion	201
11	A "Simple Buddhist Monk"	225
12	Thwarting the Dalai Lama	243
13	Hollywood Versus Wal-Mart	269
	EPILOGUE: China's "Totally Correct" Policies	291
	Acknowledgments	301
	Notes	303
	Index	321