Episode Summary
Drawn from a three-decades-long conversation with the Dalai Lama, Iyer's book explores the hidden life, the singular thinking, and the daily challenges of a global icon.
Participant(s) Bio
Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels, including The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years. He lives in suburban Japan.
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