The Wheel of Life weaves the stories of Namgyal Lhamo Taklha with that of Tibet before the Chinese invasion..Raised in an aristocratic family in Tibet, married to a brother of the Dalai Lama,the author experienced the old Tibet and then saw it slip away.

Wheel of Life: An Autobiography, Namgyal Lhamo Taklha, New Age Books, Paperback, 222 pp., $10.00

Namgyal Lhamo Taldha is the grand daughter of D.D. Tsarong, Commandar General of Tibet and one of the chief forces for modernization in old Tibet. An artistic consultant for the film Kundun she also served as secretary in the Tibetan Government in Exile in India.