Jeffery Paine is the author of Reenchantment and Father India and is the editor of The Poetry of Our World. He is former literary editor of The Wilson Quarterly and lives in Washington, DC.

"...a fascinating account... Paine manages the unlikely feat of chronicling the more troubling and outlandish incidents in Tibetan Buddhism's short Western history without obscuring the positive effects its teachings appear to have had on so many adherents." Ed Halliwell, The Observer "...Paine's critically acclaimed book tells the story of Tibet's surprising recent incursion into the West's consciousness..." Publishing News "Paine's page-turner of a book is full of the uncanny, the extraordinary and mysterious, although he's careful to frame it in a way that the rationalist and the secular reader will not object to." Laurence Phelan, The Independent on Sunday, 13 February 2005

Jeffery Paine is the author of Reenchantment and Father India and is the editor of The Poetry of Our World. He is former literary editor of The Wilson Quarterly and lives in Washington, DC.

"...a fascinating account... Paine manages the unlikely feat of chronicling the more troubling and outlandish incidents in Tibetan Buddhism's short Western history without obscuring the positive effects its teachings appear to have had on so many adherents." Ed Halliwell, The Observer "...Paine's critically acclaimed book tells the story of Tibet's surprising recent incursion into the West's consciousness..." Publishing News "Paine's page-turner of a book is full of the uncanny, the extraordinary and mysterious, although he's careful to frame it in a way that the rationalist and the secular reader will not object to." Laurence Phelan, The Independent on Sunday, 13 February 2005

Jeffery Paine is the author of Reenchantment and Father India and is the editor of The Poetry of Our World. He is former literary editor of The Wilson Quarterly and lives in Washington, DC.

"...a fascinating account... Paine manages the unlikely feat of chronicling the more troubling and outlandish incidents in Tibetan Buddhism's short Western history without obscuring the positive effects its teachings appear to have had on so many adherents." Ed Halliwell, The Observer "...Paine's critically acclaimed book tells the story of Tibet's surprising recent incursion into the West's consciousness..." Publishing News "Paine's page-turner of a book is full of the uncanny, the extraordinary and mysterious, although he's careful to frame it in a way that the rationalist and the secular reader will not object to." Laurence Phelan, The Independent on Sunday, 13 February 2005