- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: Weatherhill Distribution Inc.,; illustrated edition edition (Mar 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0906026490
- ISBN-13: 978-0906026496
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 22.7 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,254,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
What a funny, but saddly false book!,
By Tulku Mingmay Dorji Wanchuck (Bhtuan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Of Rainbows and Clouds: The Life of Yab Ugyen Dorji as told to his daughter (Hardcover)
As a real Bhutanese who has read this book, I have to say that grand liberties taken by Ashi Dorji Wangmo are truly funny. So what if she writes well? She had a ghost writter anyway. She has totally invented her family's tree to give legitimacy to some claim to royal origins even though she is already married to the His Majesty the King. Big mistake on her part because the people she claims to be related to are still living. I wonder why she would do this when everyone in Bhutan is laughing at her fantasy behind her back? Could it be that the truth is relative and if you tell a lie long enough it becomes the truth? Of course most people would never in a million years say anything publicly. Maybe her father the notorious land stealer (because he is the king's infuriating father in-law) told her this and she really believes it. HM is really a good guy, but his in-laws do as they wish and the local people who only have a plot of land to grow rice really don't like it when she comes on official visits to the Dzongkhags. The people respect HM and love him and would do anything for him and the country are weary of self aggrandizing ashies at the people's expense. It's too bad that I have to use a pseudonym, for fear of my own business being ruined by the newly royals monopolies .
1.0 out of 5 stars
Read this book instead!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Of Rainbows and Clouds: The Life of Yab Ugyen Dorji as told to his daughter (Hardcover)
My recommendation:Buy any other book about Bhutan, and remove any pleasure you gained from reading this book of lies. READ THIS ONE!
1.0 out of 5 stars
Rainbows and Lies - Book of Lies,
By A Customer
This review is from: Of Rainbows and Clouds: The Life of Yab Ugyen Dorji as told to his daughter (Hardcover)
I guess if what ever you do to improve this life's existance doesn't help you in the next, then this story book is a book of fiction that will not add to the authors' advancement in subsequent incarnations. If what you do harms the life of others in this life and impeads the ability of others to avoid suffering and causes hatred of oneself due to selfishness and greed, then this book is a self indictment by the lies told in it.
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