About this title: Renowned Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman led a group of students--including co-author Tad Wise--on a spiritual adventure through the forbidding landscape of remote western Tibet. Together the authors take readers to sites few Westerners have seen: sacred graveyards, majestic monasteries, and meditation caves of ancient masters. Chronicling the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780553103465ISBN:0553103466
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780553103465ISBN:0553103466
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 0553103466 The covers of the book and the dust jacket have some shelf wear. This is a book about spirituality and Tibet. read more
Description: Very Good. 0553378503 Softcover book is in excellent condition, 1st printing, no spine creases, mild shelf wear. Shop & Save With US. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780553103465ISBN:0553103466
Description: Good PLUS in Good PLUS jacket. 1999 FIRST/FIRST/GOOD PLUS HARDCOVER IN GOOD PLUS DJ/BOTTOM OUTSIDE PAGE EDGES HAVE SLIGHT SOILING. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1999
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books [1999 although this proof is actually from late 1998], New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780553103465ISBN:0553103466
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Edition: First edition. First printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780553103465ISBN:0553103466
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean and tight without marks or tears. Looks unread. Slight shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780553103465ISBN:0553103466
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"This is written in a very fun way. Tad Wise is a cynical, womanizing jerk kind of a guy and he is describing the spiritual journey he took around Mt. Kailash in Tibet with Robert Thurman, who is meanwhile writing all of the Dharma talks he gave during the trip. Tad's descriptions are more fun to read, but without the Dharma and his slow transformation the book would be hard to take. (Since he's a cynical womanizing jerk)"
"One part travelogue and one part Buddhist educational lecture, this seemingly odd combination works surprisingly well. Tad Wise has written about the story of his journey with Robert Thurman and a group of other students to sacred Mount Kailash in Tibet. His style is engaging and the details of the experiences of the travellers prove fascinating. Adding to the interest is the personal history between Wise and Thurman, which both enriches and complicates Wise's journey. All this serves as a backdrop for Thurman's teaching on Dharmarakshita's "Blade Wheel of Mind Transformation," on which he gives extended discourses in his inimitable, energetic style. These teachings formed the backbone of the students' Kailash circumambulation, and were revealed piece by piece over the course of trip. The book intersperses Wise's and Thurman's writing, but in a chronologically continuous style, so the reader really gets to experience how the teachings were integrated with the travellers' daily rounds. Fascinating details of life in Tibet are alone worth the price of admission. Highly recommended."
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