heartlands

Heartlands, written by Michael Buckley, is a book about his extensive travels in Tibet and the regions surrounding it. The book is packed with interesting facts and stories about Tibetan culture, history, customs, traditions and way of life, as well as some short interviews with various monks and other interesting people. Michael obviously knows his stuff when it comes to Tibet, he has a huge amount of knowledge packed into the book.

It covers many towns and places / things to see, mostly very interesting, although there are a few places where it gets a little boring when he starts listing places without any "story attached to them" (as in: and then we went here, followed by going there, and then there, etc. etc.)

Overall a very enjoyable book, if you are interested in Tibet.

A quote: "I think the problem is that many Westerners categorise Buddhism as a religion, which it really isn't. It's a study of life." - Khyentse Norbu