Tibet, Tibet

£8.99

"Tibet, Tibet" is a personal history of this disputed land - not the mysterious mountain kingdom of lamas and gold-roofed monasteries of the Western imagination, but a real place with a tumultuous past, a complex culture and a complicated relationship with its powerful neighbour China. It was this place that Patrick French had come to know and love over twenty years.

Here, then, is all that you would expect - Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, Tibetan exiles and celebrity protesters. But much more that you wouldn't - including Tibetan imperialism; the eighteenth-century poet-lama who drank, braided his hair, loved sex and could be in two places at once; and, in the present day, the grim reality of living under Chinese rule.