What the Lotus Said: A Journey to Tibet and Back

Rating:
Summary: An attempt at something it is not.
Review: This is not a horrible book - it's just not a particularly good one either. The book did not engage me and I never found it particularly interesting or insightful. I had expected to learn something about Tibetan Buddhism, but I did not learn much.

Swanson seems to want to mix the genre of travelogue with interspersed chapters that attempt to wax eloquently on Buddhism. I found that he was not particularly successful in this and as a result it made the book disjointed.

This is a short book and a quick read, so you won't waste much time if you do decide to read it....I just don't think I would recommend it to my friends.