cover image The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation

The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation

Glenn H. Mullin. Clear Light Books, $34.95 (555pp) ISBN 978-1-57416-039-0

Quick trivia quiz: Which 18th-century Dalai Lama is, according to legend, still alive and traveling the earth incognito? Answer: the Sixth, who supposedly wanders the world to assist others with his spiritual knowledge. Glenn Mullin's The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation offers this tidbit alongside thousands of other anecdotes, facts and legends about the spiritual leaders of Tibet through over the last six centuries. Well researched and engagingly written, this may prove to be the definitive source on Tibet's Fab Fourteen. ( July)