 enlarge | Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 21879
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307267601
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3923092
EAN: 9780307267603
ASIN: 0307267601
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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Condition: Iyer, Pico; The Open Road: The Global Journey Of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama; 11; Brand New, Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked; Knopf; 2008; Starred Review. This is a brilliant pairing of writer and subject. Iyer has known the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, for more than 30 years, thanks to a long-ago connection between the writer's father, an Oxford don born in India, and a young Dalai Lama. And so the acute global observer Iyer, a travel writer, essayist and novelist, has long followed the fortunes of the astute globalist Tibetan Buddhist, who travels the world but can never go home to his Chinese-occupied country. This is not a biography but an extended journalistic analysis of someone deep enough for several lifetimes, as Tibetan Buddhists believe. Iyer organizes his observations by smart descriptions of aspects of the Dalai Lama's work and character: icon, monk, philosopher, politician. This allows him to plumb different sides of His Holiness,
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