The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Name: The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
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By Pico Iyer

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Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father's) for the last three decades-a continuing exploration of his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama's position: though he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the most remote, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of globalism and technology. He is a religious leader who warns against being needlessly distracted by religion; a Tibetan head of state who suggests that exile from Tibet can be an opportunity; an incarnation of a Tibetan god who stresses his everyday humanity.Moving from Dharamsala, India-the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile-to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West where the Dalai Lama's pragmatism, rigour, and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 288
Release Date:: 2009-03-01
Publication Date:: 2009-03
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0747597448
Minimum Reading Age:: 14
Maximum Reading Age:: 18
Weight:: 194 g
Height:: 19.8 cm
Width:: 12.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.8 cm

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