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Amazon.com Review Eric Swanson on *Escape from the Land of Snows * Eric Swanson is co-author of the New York Times bestselling The Joy of Living and Joyful Wisdom . Stephan Talty’s Escape from the Land of Snows gripped me from its opening image-–that of a lonely, frightened twenty-three year-old man pacing the gilded cage of a palace garden outside Lhasa--through its final, haunting scenes, which show the Tibetan capital fifty years after the uprising that compelled the young Dalai Lama to escape his homeland in the face of a brutal crackdown by Chinese government forces. This meticulously researched book weaves together strands from a wide array of sources to provide an extraordinarily vivid and compelling picture of a labyrinth of events-–from CIA schemes, to assassination attempts, to kidnapping plots, to the callous and calculating debates of Cold War politics, to shattering betrayals of Tibetan government figures–-swirling around a young man confronting a destiny for which no amount of spiritual or political training could prepare him. While the outlines of the story are generally known, what fascinated me most was the immediacy that Talty brings to the telling. I fel

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Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-; Talty, Stephan; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-, Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935

Publisher

Crown Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299000605

Category

religious

Subjects

Buddhism, Historical Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.79 / 5 (233 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14