This A&E biography examines the life of the monk recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha by Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama. Actor Richard Gere, Chinese scholars, Tibetan activists and the Dalai Lama himself review his life from hi s birth as Tenzin Gyatso through his exile in 1959 to his acceptance of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Narrated by Martha Teichner.