In a single generation, Tibetan Buddhism developed from the faith of a remote mountain people, to perhaps the most rapidly growing and celebrity-studded religion in the West. Disaffected with other religious traditions yet searching for meaning, huge numbers of Americans have found their way to the wisdom of Tibetan lamas in exile. Profiling some of the most important modern lamas, Jeffrey Paine explains how Tibetan Buddhism—rarified and sensual, mystical and commonsensical—became the ideal religion for a "post-religious" age.