Born in Tibet

Foreword to the 1995 edition

Foreword to the 1977 edition

How to pronounce Tibetan names and words

Found and enthroned

The foundling of Surmang

Düdtsi-til and Namgyal-tse

My childhood at Düdtsi-til

In the steps of the tenth Trungpa

I go to my guru

Death, duties and a vision

A many-sided training

The Dalai Lama's visit

Khampas in revolt

Lonely vocation

Into hiding

Must we escape?

It must be India

Refugees on the move

Travelling the hard way

Days of crisis

Touch and go!

Across the Himalaya

Song of the wanderer in Powo Valley

Epilogue

Appendix I: The administration of the Ka-Gyü Monasteries of East Tibet ; Monastic finances

Appendix II

Glossary.