The hero of this novel is based on Khyungpo Naljor, one of the greatest figures in Tibetan history.He is praised as “Master Xuanzang in the holy snow land”. Therefore, the book can also be called “The Song for Pilgrim”. Written in an magical realist style, the novel is a biographic story of a siddha (a great achiever) going for a quest for true self and for a long journey towards enlightenment.
From the perspective of historical and cultural research, the book may have filled in a blank in a specific historical period of Himalayan culture and the interaction between cultures of China, Nepal and India. The book is very different from biographies that is popular nowadays.It is filled with abundant dialogues between characters and rich details about characters’ spiritual quests. It not only contains secret guidance for people to transcend worldliness to attain self realization, but also elaborates the pitfalls that one might fall into when faced with tough choices as well as effective methods to deal with them. You will thereby understand that a great person, a hero, is never born to be an unusually blessed extraordinary person, but rather a person with flesh and blood and emotions. Each chapter has different stories, as well as different symbolic meanings, which not only vividly shows how a pilgrim went through his journey to seek enlightenment, but also provides a good example for those who leave their hometown to search for a home for their souls.