Award-winning journalist Lea Terhune paints a portrait of an extraordinary young man who will likely play a key role in the future of Tibet & Tibetan Buddhism. This fascinating story begins 900 years ago and reveals political intrigue and controversy among powerful spiritual leaders. Award-winning journalist Lea Terhune paints a portrait of an extraordinary young man who will likely play a key role in the future of Tibet & Tibetan Buddhism. While only a young man, Orgyen Trinley Dorje's life has been marked indelibly by devotion, intrigue, and transformation. Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation is his amazing story. In January 2000, fourteen-year-old Orgyen Trinley Dorje was thrust upon the world stage. Recognized as the Seventeenth Karmapa ?arguably the second most powerful figure in the Tibetan Buddhist religious hierarchy ?he made a dramatic escape from his Chinese Communist overseers to the land of the Buddha's birth, India, so that he could study with the masters of his religious lineage, follow his conscience, and be a leader to his people. Through wide-ranging research and interviews with key figures, including the Karmapa himself, award-winning journalist Lea Terhune unlocks the riveting tale of the Karmapa's disputed incarnation, and traces the roots of the Kagyu tradition and the history of the previous Karmapas in order to illuminate the tale of the young man born to play a key role in the future of Tibet. In January 2000, the world was introduced to the 17th Karmapa lama, a young man who had just made a dramatic escape from Tibet. In this fascinating book, award-winning journalist Terhune paints a portrait of an extraordinary young man who defied the Chinese and escaped to freedom. 12 photos.
