Thomas C. Laird (born June 30, 1953) is an American journalist, writer, and photographer who specializes in Tibet.
Laird divides his time between New Orleans and Kathmandu, Nepal, where he lived for 30 years. He has photographed and written for the likes of Time and Newsweek.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life and work
- 1.1 The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama
- 1.2 Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
- 1.3 Cutter (Detective Jimmy Parisi Thriller Book 1)
- 1.4 Home is the Hunter
- 1.5 Advice from a Call Center Geek: Rethinking Call Center Operations
- 1.6 MORE Advice from a Call Center Geek!: Rethinking Call Center Operations 2.0
- 1.7 The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet
- 1.8 Given in Evidence: A Collection of Crime and Thriller Short Stories
- 1.9 The Laird O'Cockpen
- 1.10 Joan of Paris
Life and work
At the age of 18, Laird left the United States and travelled, overland, alone, from Europe to Nepal, passing through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. He made that trip six grow old within the neighboring two years.
In 1973, after studying in the expose of Tibetan refugees in Nepal, he time-honored grants from I.A.A. Anstalt to build ethnographic unassailable recordings in Buddhist monasteries in Kathmandu, Nepal. The resulting photo album was one of the first LPs of Tibetan ritual music ever made, released by Lyrichord.
After travelling through revolution-ridden Iran, he established full-time in Kathmandu, where he worked as a photographer, Himalayan guide, and journalist. He photographed the 1990 People’s Movement for Stern, Asiaweek, and others, and a year later time-honored the first ever one-year residence allow for Mustang. Peter Matthiessen and Laird collaborated to publish East of Lo Monthang: In The Land of Mustang in 1995. Laird was moreover the first Westerner to legally saunter through the Himalayas of Western Nepal to Mount Kailash; and the first westerner to on fire any allowance of Tibet’s Tsangpo river in a coracle in protester times.
For Time and Newsweek, Laird wrote the first accurate story of Nepal’s 2001 Royal Massacre, and reported from the battlefields of Nepal’s Maoist lawlessness in 2003.
Last update 2021-08-06