Synopsis Dalai Lama: a personality study. Ranchan examines Dalai Lama in terms of his family dynamics, his rigorous training form childhood to youth, his encounter with the Chinese usurpers, his heroic encounter flight to India, his settling his million strong Tibetan diaspora, principally in India, but also elsewhere in Europe and America, and becoming a world leader and teacher of Buddhism. Ranchan illuminates Dalai as a hero, mana man, as an extender of Buddhism.