{"product_id":"open-road-the-global-journey-of-the-fourteenth-dalai-lama","title":"Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eOpen Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePico Iyer\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780307267603\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eOne 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePico 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Open Road\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama | Pico Iyer | Hardcover | 9780307267603 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1750758","offer_id":48883790741656,"sku":"1750758","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51kikcNEEPL.jpg?v=1776478140","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/open-road-the-global-journey-of-the-fourteenth-dalai-lama","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}