Jamyang Norbu is director of the Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, Dharmasala. He is the author of Warriors of Tibet, the biography of a Kampa warrior; Illusion and Reality, a collection of his political essays, and the editor of The Performing Traditions of Tibet. He was also the director of the Tibetan Institute of the Performing Arts and has written five plays and a traditional opera libretto. Norbu has lectures on Tibetan Culture and the freedom struggle at more than a hundred universities and institutions in the USA, Canada, Australia, France, India, Japan and the UK. He has also appeared on a number of television and radio shows and interviews all over the world to argue the case of Tibet.
In 1891, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Homes - in a last deadly struggle with arch criminal Professor Moriarty - had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two years later, popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr. Watson: 'I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa.' This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes' journey to the East. Jamyang Norbu - an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle - decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes'stay in Lhasa, Tibet. What he unearths is the Mandala, written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookherjee, Holmes 'traveling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and revelas that it is difficult to resist. An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of Kipling's India.
