Publisher's Synopsis
Describes the life of a teenage spiritual leader, identified as the 17th Karmapa, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism, from his early childhood, to identification as the reincarnation of the 16th Karmapa at the age of eight, to his escape from a Tibetan monastery and nine-hundred-mile flight across the Himalayas. Reprint. 15,000 f.