"The Dalai Lama" is a further edition to the "People Who Have Helped the World series". This series, which covers the lives of leading humanitarians, peacemakers and conservationists is aimed at young people between the ages of 11 and 14. The books are designed to give children greater awareness and knowledge of the people who have made a major contribution to the world around them. "The Dalai Lama" tells the story of the man who has consistently upheld the belief that non-violent resistance is the only answer to the problems of his country - Tibet and his people. His strength and his constant opposition to violence both in Tibet, the country he leads, and throughout the world led to him being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. At the heart of the executions and destruction by the Chinese in Tibet, was Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was aged only fifteen when the Chinese invaded Tibet. The biography follows the story of the Dalai Lama"s life, from the time he was chosen, as a young child, to be the next Dalai Lama to his forced exile in India and his constant struggle for peace for his people.