Thanks for letting me use your photo — without permission! The day I met Mr Samphel our office photographer wasn’t available and my moody old camera just refused to work. I figured the DL Foundation wouldn’t have a problem with the use of that photo for this purpose — and it was the only decent one of Mr Samphel I could find on the Net. If you hover over the image on my blog you will see it does say “courtesy the Dalai Lama Foundation”. I’d be happy to credit you for it instead. Do please let me know via e-mail how you’d like to be credited.

And do read the book if you can find it — it’s quite a feat of storytelling, and full of life. I wish the publisher had worked harder to rub off the odd rough corner and to arrange publicity. And also that now they would hurry up and find a way to bring the book to other markets as well.

best,

r