A beautifully written, wide-ranging portrait of the Tibetan people and the aspirations of their leader, Iyer's remarrkable book includes chapters on daily life in Dharamsala, travels with the Dalai Lama, snippets of the history of modern Tibet. Iyer, who has known the Dalai Lama since his graduate student days, draws on his long association with the man and his ideas.  (TBT118, $24.00)