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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteen Dalai Lama
Pico Iyer
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Hardcover, 275 pages; 2008
$24.00
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A religious teacher who is telling people not to get confused or distracted by religion; a Tibetan who is suggesting that Tibet does not have all the answers; a Buddhist who, more and more, is urging foreigners not to take up Buddhism but to study within their own traditions, where their roots are deepest: at the very least, something quite radical is being advanced.
The Open Road presents an intimate and lyrical portrait of the complex and reserved man behind the celebrity image of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Pico Iyer, whose personal relationship with the Dalai Lama spans three decades, traveled to Lhasa, Tibet, and Dharamsala, India (the locale of the Tibetan government-in-exile)—and followed him to numerous Western engagements. In this biographical memoir, Iyer reflects upon the singular role that the current Tibetan head of state, a champion of modernization and globalism, plays in our increasingly globalized world. The Open Road is a timely tribute that’s as compelling, compassionate, and insightful as its formidable subject.
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