{"id":954,"date":"2022-09-23T05:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=954"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:29:15","slug":"the-dalai-lama-an-extraordinary-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/the-dalai-lama-an-extraordinary-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-955\" width=\"340\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4-768x1157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4-1359x2048.jpg 1359w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-4.jpg 1699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama\u2014a story by turns inspiring and shocking\u2014from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dalai Lama\u2019s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive.&nbsp; At last Alexander Norman\u2014acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet\u2014delivers the definitive, unique, unforgettable biography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dalai Lama recounts an astonishing odyssey from isolated Tibetan village to worldwide standing as spiritual and political leader of one of the world\u2019s most profound and complex cultural traditions. Norman reveals that, while the Dalai Lama has never been comfortable with his political position, he has been a canny player\u2014at one time CIA-backed\u2014who has maneuvered amidst pervasive violence, including placing himself at the center of a dangerous Buddhist schism. Yet even more surprising than the political, Norman convinces, is the Dalai Lama\u2019s astonishing spiritual practice, rooted in magic, vision, and prophecy\u2014details of which are illuminated in this book for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A revelatory life story of one of today\u2019s most radical, charismatic, and beloved world leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published by HarperCollins India, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama\u2014a story by turns inspiring and shocking\u2014from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject. The Dalai Lama\u2019s message of peace and compassion resonates with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}