Penthouse of the Gods

Résumé : An amazing story, told by the first American to be initiated as a lama in Tibet. How he came to go there, how he became bit by bit, immersed in the country and what it signified. His travels, the variety of his experiences, divided between entertainments and study, his acceptance on the part of the Tibetans as a re-incarnation of a holy man and the receipt of the order to become a lama. He seems thoroughly at home in the philosophy he has studied and presents Lamaistic Buddhism as superior to modern religions and ways of life. A book for religious counter as well as oriental philosophy and travel -- unique in its field. One might almost sell it as the authentic story behind Hilton's Lost Horison. A more convincingly sincere book than Yeats Brown's in a somewhat parallel approach to the study of yoga. (Kirkus)