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The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Knopf
April 2008
On Sale: March 25, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0307267601
EAN: 9780307267603
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of
globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious
consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician,
scientist, and philosopher. Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai
Lama (a friend of his father’s) for the last three
decades—an ongoing 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 remotest, 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, rigor, 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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