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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.
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Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, dalai lama xiv, 1935-, Spiritual life, buddhism, Buddhism, doctrines, Dalai lamas, Biography, Spiritual life, Buddhism, Doctrines, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, New York Times reviewed, Dalai lamor, Biografi, Buddhism, china, tibet autonomous regionShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
2009, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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The Open Road The Global Journey Of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
2009, Vintage Books USA
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2008, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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The open road: the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama
2008, Alfred A. Knopf
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2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
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For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most singular figures of our time, explaining the Dalai Lama's work and ideas about politics, science, technology, and religion. For Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life and the daily challenges of this global iconFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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