God spoke Tibetan; the epic story of the men who gave the Bible to Tibet, the forbidden land

Starting with the sudden death of a Dali Lama in the thousand-room palace of Lahasa, the story moves into Kashmir as a government official accused of murder escapes for his life. This fugitive, settling in a "Shangri-la" valley of Kashmir, helps launch the first attempts to translate the Bible. But the task proves formidable beyond anyone's imagination, as a sequence of heartbreaking setbacks blocks the translators's efforts. Not only are there language barriers, but also war and revolution, a Himalayan thunderstorm, the heat of India's plains, and a roaring avalanche from a mountain cliff.

The setting for this improbable, but well-documented narrative is an exotic land surrounded by the world's highest mountains. It is a country whose people practice Buddhism heavily mixed with demon worship; where polyandry (plurality of husbands) is practiced; where, until the Chinese invasion, a succession of Dalai Lamas where both worshiped and assassinated.

The translation of a Bible hardly sounds like an exciting event, but this one is different. You will not only be entertained, but inspired with a sense of power of the Word of life, the Book that "is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword."

"God Spoke Tibetan" will stir all those who love the Holy Scriptures and rejoice in its triumphant witness to the farthest points on the globe.