Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | French, Patrick |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 9/28/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martialprowess, enlightenment and cruelty.
The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leaderwho can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated byTibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history, agitated for its freedom,and risked arrest to travel through its remote interior. His love and knowledge informevery page of this learned, literate, and impassioned book.
Talking with nomadsand Buddhist nuns, exiles and collaborators, French portrays a nation demoralizedby a half-century of Chinese occupation and forced to depend on the patronage ofWestern dilettantes. He demolishes many of the myths accruing to Tibet–includingthose centering around the radiant figure of the Dalai Lama. Combining the best ofhistory, travel writing, and memoir,
Tibet, Tibet is a work of extraordinary powerand insight.
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