About the Book: Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West
The colourful tale of the successful flowering of an obscure, ancient Eastern
sect in the modern world. In a single generation, Tibetan Buddhism developed
from the faith of a remote mountain people, associated with bizarre, almost
medieval, superstitions, to perhaps the most rapidly growing and
celebrity-studded religion in the West. Disaffected with other religious
traditions yet searching for meaning, huge numbers of Americans have found their
way to the wisdom of Tibetan lamas in exile. Earthy, humorous, commonsensical,
and eccentric, these flamboyant teachers; larger-than-life characters like Lama
Yeshe and Chogyma Trungpa; proved to be charismatic and gifted