The incredible story of a writer's search for the Tibetan leader in waiting, set against her own political and spiritual journey through India.
When a 14-year-old Tibetan refugee escaped from Tibet across the Himalayas to India in January 2000, China lost its best hope of one day controlling the Tibetan people. The boy was the 17th Karmapa - Ogyen Trinley Dorje - already a major religious figure and the only incarnate lama to be recognised by both the Dalai Lama and the secular People’s Republic of China.
Instead of gaining freedom, this young spiritual leader of an ancient line of Tibetan Buddhism became embroiled in Sino-Indian politics and the victim of a controversy that still rages today. In India he is a prisoner in all but name, living in a few rooms atop a deserted monastery in Northern India - a leader in waiting.
Full of intrigue, portent and miracle - as well as claims and counterclaims - 'Wrestling With The Dragon' might seem like a colourful fiction except that the story is true, and being played out against a highly sensitive spiritual and political background.
In this gripping narrative, Gaby Naher artfully interweaves the story of this Tibetan leader in waiting and that of his country with her own political and spiritual journey that takes her to the young lama’s throne.
