For the first time in over five hundred years, a reigning Dalai Lama speaks about the story of his land and people: 'The fourteenth Dalai Lama's fresh account of Tibetan myth and history is wonderful instruction and a great true pleasure.' Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard
Thomas Laird has been based in Kathmandu, Nepal for thirty years and now divides his time between there and New Orleans. He has worked as a journalist for Time, Asiaweek and Newsweek. His first non-fiction book was Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa.
Deeply absorbing... Laird brilliantly weaves together the disparate
strands of politics and religion... What emerges is a figure of
extraordinary resilience, equanimity, and optimism... A valuable
and fascinating addition to the canon.
*Daily Telegraph*
Remarkable... The Dalai Lama emerges from this book more fully and,
if I may say, more as a human being than from most of the dozens of
other books in which he appears.
*Literary Review*
Thomas Laird captures the beauty, the magnificence, the humour of
this world spiritual leader.
*James Lilley, former U.S. Ambassador to China and South Korea*
The fourteenth Dalai Lama's fresh account of Tibetan myth and
history is wonderful instruction and a great true pleasure.
*Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard*
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