Wings of the White Crane are unquestionably the most unusual and sensational of all the books by or about Tibetan Buddhists yet to appear in English. Westerners previously baffled by the strangely esoteric cast of the Tibetan mind will have no difficulty in finding sympathy with the Sixth Dalai Lama, a spiritual "pope" to the Tibetan Buddhists of his time, who poured out his very human heart into these simple, eloquent, often erotic songs of lovers lost ...
