Our Pilgrimage to Tibet: Family Trip to See the Golden Child

Description

What happens when a Western businessman asks his dharma teacher a simple question and is told that to get the answer to that question he is to go to Tibet that very summer and find the His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, the high lama on which the movie The Golden Childwas based? What if this businessman and his wife have never babysat their kids, so the whole family must go to Tibet. Here is the story of the where they find the Golden Child, and make a pilgrimage to some of Tibet’s most sacred places, its highest caves, meeting along the way all kinds of adventures and sacred beings. It doesn’t matter that they mispronounce a Hindu word and end up landing and being left in the middle of a jungle or that young cab drivers run off with two of their teenage daughters. But that is part of the story. Includes over 100 photos and 310 pages. Includes lists of what to take and what not to take..