Michael Brownstein

Michael Brownstein Michael Brownstein is the author of Country Cousins and Music from the Evening of the World. His latest novel is The Touch, published by Autonomedia.

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Lord of the Dance

LORD OF THE DANCE: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama Chagdud TulkuPadma Publishing: Johnson City, CA, 1992.248 pp., $16.95 (paperback). THE GREAT VIRTUE of Lord of the Dance, Chagdud Tulku’s autobiography, is the utter straightforwardness with…

By Michael Brownstein

Summer 1993

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