Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one interviews that covered history, science, reincarnation, and Buddhism. Laird brings these meetings to life in rich, vibrant, and monumental work that outlines the essence of thousands of years of civilization, myth, and spirituality. Tibet's story is rich with tradition and filled with promise. It begins with the Bodhisattva Chenrizi ("The Holy One") whose spirit many Tibetans believe ...
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Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one interviews that covered history, science, reincarnation, and Buddhism. Laird brings these meetings to life in rich, vibrant, and monumental work that outlines the essence of thousands of years of civilization, myth, and spirituality. Tibet's story is rich with tradition and filled with promise. It begins with the Bodhisattva Chenrizi ("The Holy One") whose spirit many Tibetans believe resides within the Dalai Lama. We learn the origins of Buddhism, and about the era of Great Tibetan Emperors, whose reign stretched from southwestern China to Northern India. His Holiness introduces us to Tibet's greatest yogis and meditation masters, and explains how the institution of the Dalai Lama was founded. Laird explores, with His Holiness, Tibet's relations with the Mongols, the Golden Age under the Great Fifth Dalai Lama, Tibet's years under Manchu overlords, modern independence in the early twentieth century, and the Dalai Lama's personal meetings with Mao just before His Holiness fled into exile in 1959. "The Story of Tibet" is "a tenderly crafted study that is equal parts love letter, traditional history, and oral history" ("Publishers Weekly").
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In recent years much has been written about Tibet and the Dalai Lama and also about Tibet by the Dalai Lama himself. Of the many books available on both subjects, this book must rank as an outstanding contribution in this specialist field. Its author, Thomas Laird, a journalist, who has spent a considerable part of his life in Asia, dwells at length on the Tibetan issue, as seen through the eyes of the Dalai Lama and on what the Dalai Lama told him in their conversations. Laird's analysis of these interviews and his interpretation of how religion and politics have affected and shaped Tibetan society is revealing and sympathetic and we learn a lot about the Dalai Lama and Buddhism. The Dalai Lama's knowledge about his land and his religion, Buddhism, is, of course, second to none. The Dalai Lama rarely gives interviews but Laird was able to interview him exclusively for more that sixty hours over three years so this book really is special. And many people in the West may not be aware of how powerful a figure any Dalai Lama used to be in Tibetan history.
This is an absorbing book, made even more absorbing by the author's thorough research. Lesser known facts about scandals in Tibet and its people make the book that much more interesting e.g how many of us know that the circumstances surrounding the death of the the father of the present Dalai Lama are still shrouded in mystery?
The present Dalai Lama is the 14th Dalai Lama and for those who believe in reincarnation he is the only Dalai Lama.
If one could buy only one book about Tibet and the Dalai Lama this would be my choice.
