Dalai Lama: The Biography

The New York Times praised the book for its clarity and accuracy, stating that it is the most detailed and accurate biography to date. It also highlights the Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion, as well as his spiritual practice rooted in magic, vision, and prophecy. The book is described as a revelatory life story of one of today's most radical, charismatic, and beloved world leaders.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 464 pages
\n Publication date: 27 February 2020
\n Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Impressive in its clarity, this biography stands as the most detailed and accurate to date. Written in an engaging prose, it concludes with an insightful prediction of the legacy of the fourteenth Dalai Lama and a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges that the fifteenth will face.

The New York Times praises the Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion, which resonates with people of all faiths and none. However, despite his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, Alexander Norman, delivers the definitive biography—unique, multi-layered, and at times even shocking.

The Dalai Lama: An Astonishing Odyssey from Isolated Tibetan Village to Worldwide Standing as Spiritual and Political Leader of One of the World's Most Profound and Complex Cultural Traditions. Norman reveals that while the Dalai Lama has never been comfortable with his political position, he has been a canny player, at one time CIA-backed, who has manoeuvred amidst pervasive violence, including placing himself at the centre of a dangerous Buddhist schism. Yet, even more surprising than the political, Norman convinces, is the Dalai Lama's astonishing spiritual practice, rooted in magic, vision, and prophecy—details of which are illuminated in this book for the first time.

A revelatory life story of one of today's most radical, charismatic, and beloved world leaders.

\n Weight: 686g\n
Dimension: 211 x 152 x 39 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781846044663\n \n