THE WAY OF WHITE CLOUDS - A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet (Shambhala Dragon Editions) (Paperback)

~ Lama Anagarika Govinda (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 305 pages
• Publisher: Shambhala (December 24, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877730075
• ISBN-13: 978-0877730071
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,077,686 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Spiritual Gem, December 24, 1999

By A Customer

You'll need your reading glasses, for sure, when you pick up Lama Govinda's The Way of the White Clouds because you won't want to miss one word of this marvelous text. Travel log, personal diary, and spiritual pilgrimage - I have read this book twice and will read it again. I have only loaned it out once - and only to a family member. It is that previous to me. Govinda's images of Tibet of the 40's are vivid - he takes you there. Another - much more modern - book that shares a similar place of importance on my shelf is The Blessings Already Are by John Morton. You may have to ask for it at your favorite book store as it was just recently published this year. Peace, fellow travelers.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a profound spiritual classic..., October 6, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Nelson, B.C., Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Way of the White Clouds: a Buddhist pilgrim in Tibet, (Hardcover)

The Way of the White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda is one of the most wonderful spiritual classics ever written. Govinda made two lengthy pilgrimage trips to Tibet in the Mid-40s. The book concerns itself maily with these eventful journeys, although some moving and instructive autobiographical material about his life is included as well. Govinda has the power (by no means common among Buddhist writers...or any writers for that matter)...to combine the poetical and the ibtellectual reals in a very wonderfully effective manner. He manages both to inform and instruct you through his meetings with great Lamas including his Guru, Domo Geshe Rinpoche. He conveys thr experience of being in and travelling through Tibet giving you the dimensions of his experience. You feel the could night frosts, the rarified crisp thin air, the fierce sun burning out the dark blue sky, the sounds of hid shoes crunching through the desolate yet beautiful landscape, the smell of incence butrning, the impact of rituals recited besides sacred Lake Manasarovar, on his way to Holy Mt. Kailas, sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists...and on and on.

It is a tragedy that this book has been allowed to go out of print, and a publicly call here for its reissue. If you find thisd book anywhere at any price Pilgrim, GRAB IT! You will not regret it! I have my battered copy...it is anon-loaner. I read passages out of it for people..Namaskar...honoring through this review one of the great spiritual beings of this century.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A spiritual Gem for any traveler on The Journey of Life, April 9, 2001

By	Steinar Almelid (Kolsås, Norway) - See all my reviews

"The Way of the White Clouds" is a truly wonderful piece of art. On my own path this has been the most significant book to open my mind and heart to what is beyond the obvious.

Govinda writes from the heart with an openness and clarity which is rare in this world. Combine this with a description of a journey of Tibet just prior to it's invasion, and you can nearly grasp the Heart of tibetan spiritual culture.

Highly recommended, I truly hope Rider/Random House get enough requests for this literary gem to be printed again.