A Simple Monk: Writings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama
by Thurman, Robert A. F. and Pico Iver, Orville Schell, Diki Tsering, Spalding Gray
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1577311752
- ISBN 13
- 9781577311751
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About This Item
Novata, California, U.S.A.: New World Library, 2001. Book. Illus. by Wright, Alison. New. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition, stated first printing. Red cloth binding with gilt titles. Decorated endpapers in lama-yellow. 144 pp., illustrated with color photographs by Alison Wright. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, also known as Tenzin Gyatso, has won worldwide appreciation with his extraordinary wisdom and humility in the face of China's brutal occupation of Tibet. This beautiful visual biography combines color photographs of Tibetan lands, artifacts, and people with impressionistic essays about the Dalai Lama by his mother Diki Tsering, by China scholar and journalist Orville Schell, and by travel writer Pico Iyer, as well as an interview with His Holiness by Spalding Gray. New in new dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
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- 009540
- Title
- A Simple Monk: Writings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Author
- Thurman, Robert A. F. and Pico Iver, Orville Schell, Diki Tsering, Spalding Gray
- Illustrator
- Wright, Alison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1577311752
- ISBN 13
- 9781577311751
- Publisher
- New World Library
- Place of Publication
- Novata, California, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- GYATSO TENZIN DALAI LAMA XIV
- Bookseller catalogs
- Tibet;
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