Mikel Dunham writes:
In the Shadow of the Buddha is a book about religious freedom, transmitted from a prism that refracts a quartet of incisively written points of view. What’s really remarkable about Matteo Pistono’s book is that he wears his various narrative hats with equal authority. Read More
In the Shadow of the Buddha is a book about religious freedom, transmitted from a prism that refracts a quartet of incisively written points of view. What’s really remarkable about Matteo Pistono’s book is that he wears his various narrative hats with equal authority. Read More
"Tibet – the word calls up images of high Himalayas and red-robed monks meditating and chanting in ancient temples. Unfortunately, China is destroying that Tibet. Much of what remains of traditional Tibetan Buddhism is centered in India, where the Fourteenth Dalai Lama lives in 
"Matteo Pistono chose a journey that, inside and outside, would lead him into unfamiliar territory. He followed the path of one of Tibet’s great mystics through the Land of Snows, but what he encountered was a mass of contradictions: the elusive past and the intrusive present; brutality and torture greeted with nonviolence and 
