Posted by Don Officer (Moderator) on April 21, 2008, 1:33 pm
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On May 17 the Ottawa International Writers Festival brings Pico Iyer to Saint Brigid's Centre for Arts and Humanities to read and discuss his deeply personal biography of the Dalai Lama.
Tenzin Gyatso, the Tibetan spiritual and nominally secular leader is at once one of the most transparent yet enigmatic figures of our times. In The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Iyer explores the man who embodies dedication to simplicity even as he is revered as a god. The globe trotting Dalai Lama simultaneously advocates the most sophisticated of ecumenicisms while holding an unbelievably nuanced political outlook in the face of renewed turbulence in his Tibetan homeland.
Pico Iyer's research is vast and the Times reviewer is impressed with the results. Check out Holly Morris's review at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Morris-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2&oref=slogin
Let us know what you think of the book and the commentaries. We'll have more to say about both soon.
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