Forwarded by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Arjia Rinpoche's Surviving the Dragon is an astounding account of a Tibetan Lama's tryst with the the Chinese communist apparatus. Arjia Rinpoche's memoir has great significance and credence as stated by His Holiness in the forward:
" In order to understand what is really happening in a country where the press is neither open nor free and people live in a state of constant fear and suspicion, we must rely on individual like Arjia Rinpoche, who can now write without restraint about what he has seen, heard, and experienced in Tibet:
" In order to understand what is really happening in a country where the press is neither open nor free and people live in a state of constant fear and suspicion, we must rely on individual like Arjia Rinpoche, who can now write without restraint about what he has seen, heard, and experienced in Tibet:
