This book is an attempt to document the lives of members of the exiled Tibetan community in India and elsewhere. A revised and enlarged edition of the German publication (Tibet im Exile) this text focuses on two main themes: how Tibetans in exile preserve their culture, and how the community prepares itself for the return to Tibet. This itself is done through a series of interrelated papers that include chapters which trace the history of Tibet, analyse the legal issues involved in the dispute over her territory and sovereignity, document the reforms and changes introduced at social and political levels, and also an interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.