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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 first printing.
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The 17th Karmapa, one of the holiest figures in Tibetan Buddhism, arrived in Dharmsala as a fourteen-year-old boy in 2000, after an extraordinary escape across the Himalayas. Fascinated by this charismatic young figure, Mick Brown traveled to meet him, and found himself drawn into the labyrinthine web of intrigue surrounding the 17th Karmapa's recognition and early life.
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