Why read The Way Of The White Clouds?

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'It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's end' New Statesman

The Way of the White Clouds is the remarkable narrative of a pilgrimage which could not be…

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Sally Dukes

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This book takes the reader on a 308-page historical pilgrimage through Tibet before the 1950’s Chinese invasion.

Lama Govinda, a Westerner, courageously moves through uncharted territories, meets real-life obstacles, and graciously shares his experience and wisdom with the reader.

In reading The Way of the White Clouds, we are reminded that, “… the pilgrim abandons himself to the breath of the greater life that wells up from the depth of his being and leads him beyond the farthest horizons to an aim which is already present within him, though yet hidden from his sight.”

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