The Tibetans is the first of its kind: a beautiful but disquieting portrait of both the splendor and ruin that mark contemporary Tibet. Award-winning photojournalist Steve Lehman travels beyond the mountain vistas and timeless temples to uncover a different Tibet a Tibet of lumberyards and uranium mines; of brothels and discos; of demolished temples and burned-out police stations. Documented over a ten-year period; Lehman's thoughtful and empathic photographs make real the grave beauty of this culture torn by political conflict. The Tibetans won the National Press Photographers Association Book of the Year Award; and was accompanied by a major photography exhibit at Newseum venues in New York; San Francisco; and Washington; DC.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. One of the 20 Best Books I've Ever ReadBy Regina DomanI read this book years ago and it was groundbreaking in my thinking about the Jewish people. Although I am a Gentile; I have always been a raving PhiloSemite: I find the Jewish people; Judaism; and everything connected with those two absolutely fascinating. So it was with intense interest that I picked up this book on the recommendation of a friend: the thoughts of a Jewish Catholic priest (that is; a Jewish man who became a Catholic priest) on the conundrum of Jewish identity. Fr. Elias Friedman; who spent many years of his life living in the Holy Land in a Carmelite Community on Mt. Carmel; pondered the mystery of Jewishness for many years; and how a Jew could become Catholic and yet remain a Jew. These thoughts were intensified by his years in Israel as the State of Israel attempted to formulate answers to this same question. So he has written a short but remarkable book that answers the question and also discusses the thorny issue of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people. "The greatest fear of the Jewish people has always been their own anhilation;" he writes frankly. This; says Fr. Friedman; is the largest barrier to entry that keeps a Jew from considering Christianity; for Jews who become Christians cease to retain any Jewish identity after one or two generations: they and their children become "Gentiles." Fr. Friedman argues that this is not what Christ Himself; a devout Jew; would have wanted; and he proposes a revolutionary solution.Suffice it to say that this book has confirmed and strengthened my love for the Jewish people; and that it has given me something concrete to pray for regarding them and my Church. Given the bland cover; you may not believe how profoundly remarkable this book is. If any of the above questions interest you as well; give this book a read. You won't be disappointed.
