Donald S Lopez Jr

Donald S Lopez Jr is professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. Among his books are Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (University of Chicago Press, 1998), (as editor) Buddhist Scriptures (Penguin, 2004), and The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

How to think about Tibet

Think about Tibet as Latvia, with very tall mountains. Latvia was once the westernmost Soviet republic, although it had little in common with Russia. The language, the religion, the literature,

By Donald S Lopez Jr

/ 31 Mar 2008