The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama [Paperback] Iyer, Pico

Author: Iyer, Pico

Brand: Penguin

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 264

Release Date: 01-12-2008

Details: Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father's) for the last many decades-about his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes the Dalai Lama embodies: 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 champions globalism and technology.Moving from Dharamsala, India, 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.

EAN: 9780143064565

Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English