From Lion's Jaws: Chogyam Trungpa's Epic Escape To The West

By Grant MacLean

Book Overview

In 1959 a nineteen year-old lama, Ch?gyam Trungpa, led 300 Tibetan men, women and children on a desperate nine-month escape from pursuing Communist troops. Forced to travel where people had never been, they trekked through some of the world's harshest weather. Then, starving and exhausted, they attempted a river crossing under heavy gunfire in flimsy vessels they'd made themselves -- only to face a midwinter climb over the Himalayas.

Ranking with such legendary accounts of courage and survival as Shackleton's 1914-17 Antarctic expedition, it was marked by great compassion and good humor -- and touched by a magic long gone from the Western world. Told in spare, gripping language, enhanced by Ch?gyam Trungpa's hand-drawn maps and illustrations, the story links to a gallery of images, video footage and satellite imagery that enable readers to follow the stunning route, breathe in the spectacular landscape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099502930X
• ISBN13: 9780995029309
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Mountain
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"