[bookshare-discuss] Just Submitted: Pico Iyer
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:35:51 -0400
]please forward to volunteers list]
All,
I've just submitted for validation the following:
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, by Pico
Iyer, St. Martin's, 2008.
From the book jacket:
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, Indiathe 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.
***
I hope someone picks up this amazing book soon from one of today's most
inciteful writers.
I would appreciate it very much if someone could please forward this
announcement on to the volunteers listserv as I've lost the address.
Brian Miller
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