NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA AND ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU HAVE SURVIVED MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE AND THE SOUL-CRUSHING VIOLENCE OF OPPRESSION. DESPITE THEIR HARDSHIPS – OR, AS THEY WOULD SAY, BECAUSE OF THEM – THEY ARE TWO OF THE MOST JOYFUL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET.
IN APRIL 2015, ARCHBISHOP TUTU TRAVELLED TO THE DALAI LAMA’S HOME IN DHARAMSALA, INDIA, TO CELEBRATE HIS HOLINESS’S EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY AND TO CREATE THIS BOOK AS A GIFT FOR OTHERS. THEY LOOKED BACK ON THEIR LONG LIVES TO ANSWER A SINGLE BURNING QUESTION: HOW DO WE FIND JOY IN THE FACE OF LIFE’S INEVITABLE SUFFERING?
THEY TRADED INTIMATE STORIES, TEASED EACH OTHER CONTINUALLY AND SHARED THEIR SPIRITUAL PRACTICES. BY THE END OF A WEEK FILLED WITH LAUGHTER AND PUNCTUATED WITH TEARS, THESE TWO GLOBAL HEROES HAD STARED INTO THE ABYSS AND DESPAIR OF OUR TIMES AND REVEALED HOW TO LIVE A LIFE BRIMMING WITH JOY.
THIS BOOK OFFERS US A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THEIR ASTONISHING AND UNPRECEDENTED WEEK TOGETHER, FROM THE FIRST EMBRACE TO THE FINAL GOODBYE.
नोबेल पारितोषिक विजेते हिज होलीनेस दलाई लामा आणि आर्चबिशप डेस्मंड टुटू यांनी आयुष्याची तब्बल पन्नास वर्षं निर्वासित अवस्थेत काढली. तरी ते दोघेही या पृथ्वीतलावरचे सर्वांत प्रसन्नचित्त लोक आहेत. २०१५ मध्ये दलाई लामा यांचा ८० वा वाढदिवस साजरा करण्यासाठी आर्चबिशप टुटू धरमसालाला जाऊन पोहोचले. आयुष्यातल्या अटळ दुःखांच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर आनंद कसा शोधावा, या ज्वलंत प्रश्नाचं उत्तर शोधण्यासाठी दोघांनीही आपापल्या जीवनप्रवासाचा दीर्घ आढावा घेतला. स्वागताच्या आलिंगनापासून ते अखेरच्या निरोपापर्यंतचा त्या दोघांनी व्यतीत केलेला अभूतपूर्व आणि विस्मयकारक आठवडा अनुभवण्याची अपूर्व संधी हे पुस्तक आपल्याला देतं.