Characters
                          (in order of appearance)

     Reting Rinpoche ... Regent of Tibet, served in the years between
           the death of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the discovery
           of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.  A monk.
     Lama of Sera ... Keustang Rinpoche  A high lama.
     Lhamo Dhondrup ... The Fourteenth Dalai Lama.  Also known
           as Tenzin Gyatso.
     Lobsang Samten ... The Dalai Lama's immediate older brother.
     Tsering Dolma  ... Th