The world of the Tibetan community in India is explored in this narrative, part memoir, part political and historical study but mostly first hand impressions of a displaced but resilient community.

Carlo Buldrini revisits Tibet after a gap of twenty years - most of those years spent on the Indian sub-continent - and watches the parallel development of Tibetans inside and outside Tibet with chapters on Tibetan medicine; an interview with HH the Dalai Lama; the sinister Dorje Shugden cult which lead to murder and threats to the Dalai Lama's life, the Karmapa Lama and the controversy surrounding him, the two Panchen Lamas and what became of them: interviews, diary entries and case studies, Lyrical, descriptive passages create mood and atmosphere in an otherwise terse, almost