A giant panda created by artist Patrick McDonnell talks to Tibet's Dalai Lama about the future of our planet, resulting in 'Heart to Heart' book for all ages
A chance discussion on a starry evening in Botswana, Africa, in 2019 launched an unlikely writing project that teamed the creator of the Mutts comic strip with the Dalai Lama and a prominent La Jolla couple.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, had observed that people come and go and regimes change, but we have only one planet to call home, and we must care for it and protect it. It’s the first project like this in which His Holiness has ever been depicted as an illustration, Pam says. She worked closely with McDonnell and her longtime friend and ICT board colleague Tencho Gyatso in Washington, D.C.
“It wasn’t for us to change one word in his quotes,” Pam says. “But we would get them back changed ever so slightly so they read in a more perfect way.” McDonnell chose a panda, after considering the mythical Tibetan Yeti or using an animal character from Mutts, because giant pandas live in Tibet, symbolize endangered species and were mentioned by the Dalai Lama in his book, “My Tibet.”“Heart to Heart” is comprised of McDonnell’s drawings and storyline, with the words coming from His Holiness. Nevertheless, the project has taken a village to create, Cesak says. This is reflected in back-of-the-book acknowledgments.
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