# The Open Road

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- Book: [The Open Road](https://www.bookquiver.com/pico-iyer/the-open-road) ([The Open Road.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/pico-iyer/the-open-road.md))
- Authors: [Pico Iyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/pico-iyer)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4306-456-5
- Pages: 264
- Published: 2019-09-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father’s) for the last many decades-about his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes the Dalai Lama embodies: he is a religious leader who warns against being needlessly distracted by religion; a Tibetan head of state who suggests that exile from Tibet can be an opportunity; an incarnation of a Tibetan god who champions globalism and technology. Moving from Dharamsala, India, to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West-where the Dalai Lama’s pragmatism, rigour and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions- The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas and the daily challenges of a global icon.