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Title: Problematic and Unreliable
Review: This book is not a biography, but fiction disguised as fact. Ms. Naher makes up large scetions of the book about the Karmapa and his mother without a single word to tell the reader that it is all her imagination. The book is not a reliable resource of information about the Karmapa and contains numerous mistakes about the facts and the situations in which she finds herself. Ms. Naher's real subject is herself, her life and her travels.Further, the structure of the book is confusing with too many stories happening at once,and so there is no clear picture of any one of them. If one is interested in the Karmapa, there are several other books (in alphabetical order, by Mick Brown, Ken Holmes, Michele Martin, and Lea Terhune) that give a much truer picture.
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