Lea Terhune is a professional writer and journalist based in India, where she has lived since 1982. Currently editor of SPAN (a magazine of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi), she has also worked as a correspondent and producer for CNN International, ABC News Radio, and Voice of America. Her work has appeared in The Far-Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Yoga Journal, and ABCNews.com. She lives in New Delhi.
"Consider the plot line: an unusual teenager--intense,
magnetic--daringly eludes his captors, who have been preventing him
from enacting his role as an important leader. Imagine a
treacherous escape across nine hundred miles of icy, mountainous
terrain. Imagine disguises, helicopters, near misses, near
connections--and, at last, our exhausted heeo reaching apparent
safety. No sooner is his escape accomplished, however, than he
faces a rival who claims to be the true leader. This blockbuster
tale is no movie, but a true story that continues to unfold in real
time. Karmapa covers the material in a methodical way. Terhune lays
out a comprehensive, footnoted examination of the history and
politics of the Karmapas. Her systematic approach to the material
includes a glossary, an index, and several appendices. One appendix
describes the Black Hat ceremony, at which the Karmapa is believed
to transform himself into the Bodhisattva of Compassion... Ogyen
Trinley, the current Karmapa, is charismatic, wise beyond his
years, and from all indications, has the X-powers to make sure the
Tibetan cause remains big-screen, front-page material."--
"Tricycle"
"Ten years ago, the world witnessed the startling spectacle of
maroon-robed Tibetan monks hurling stones, soda bottles and curses
at each other at the gates of a Buddhist institute in New Delhi.
The scuffle in the Indian capital was over a 7-year-old boy, Orgyen
Trinley Dorje, enthroned two years earlier in a monastery in Tibet
as the seventeenth incarnation of the Karmapa, the head of the
Karma Kagyu stream of Tibetan Buddhism. With that conflict as a
backdrop, Lea Terhune, an India-based American journalist and a
longtime student of Tibetan Buddhism, has written an absorbing
portrait of the Karmapa--in his current and previous lifetimes--in
her book Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation... This story is
important for Tibet-watchers because the Karmapa one day could
succeed the Dalai Lama as the public voice of Tibet."-- "The
Associated Press"
"Terhune is an experienced journalist and has worked for CNN, Radio
Deutsche Welle and Voice of America. This shows through in her
impartial story-telling and the depths she has gone to collect the
facts and intricacies underlying the 'politics' lying below the
surface of the Kamarpa's recognition. She draws on numerous
interviews conducted over years with the majority of the story's
key figures--including the Karmapa himself. She unlocks the
mysteries underlying the recognition process and the historical
background for the incarnate lineage tradition. At the same time
she carefully builds the ground work for her insightful analysis of
the politics surrounding the process. She goes centuries back in
time to draw out the threads and tendrils of history that nuance
Tibetan temporal and spiritual politics to this day. Karmapa: The
Politics of Reincarnation presents a riveting tale and Terhune
upholds the highest journalistic ethics throughout its telling."--
"Ashe Journal"
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