Moving from Dharamsala, India -- the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile -- to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, where the Dalai Lama's pragmatism, rigor and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, "The Open Road" illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas and the daily challenges of a global icon.  (TBT118, $24.00)

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