His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Franz Alt, Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World, London: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020, pp 144.
December 2020
I was moved by an interview with the Dalai Lama on Britain’s Channel 4 News the same day this book was published. I have never actually met the Dalai Lama but, as for many of us, it’s like we have, so engaging and well-known is he across the whole globe. People flock to his teaching events. Now he is 85 and has more or less retired to his residence in Dharamsala in North East India. He looked physically older and frailer and I suddenly realised he is mortal after all, so accustomed are we to thinking of him as a permanent world teacher, a sort of planetary father figure.