To Tibetan Buddhists, Guru Rinpoche is a Buddha. This book recounts Guru Rinpoche's historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhist. In doing so it illustrates how a country whose powerful armies overran the capital of China and installed a puppet empror can to abonden its aggressive millatry campaigns: this transformation was due to Guru Rinpoche, who Tamed and converted Tibet to Buddhism and thereby changed the cource of an Asian History.