The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
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Author: Pico Iyer
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 0307267601
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Knopf

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Book Review: Not for me...
Summary: 1 Stars

I have never read anything else by Pico Iyer and, doubt very much, that I will again. I found this book to be quite self-serving, repetitious and boring. I never knew 'where' Pico Iyer was heading with his story. I couldn't find a story...he seemed to wander all over the place with fillers. My personal opinion...this book lacked direction and my time would have been better spent reading something else. I am an admirer of the Dalai Lama and I came away feeling Pico Iyer could have written this book without including him. Most of Iyer's wanderings had nothing to do with the Dalai Lama.

Summary of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

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, India—the 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.

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