Jamyang Norbu is one of Tibet's foremost writers at work today. He is a director of the Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Center for Advanced Studies, Dharamsala. He is the author of several books, five plays, numerous pamphlets, and a traditional opera libretto. He is also the winner of the Crossword Award for English Fiction, 2000, India's equivalent of the Booker Prize for The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes .

Two years later, popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great detective. Holmes informs a stunned Dr Watson: 'I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa.' This is all that the world has known of Sherlock Holmes' journey to the East. Jamyang Norbu - an avid reader of Kipling and Doyle decides to take the matter in his hands; to investigate Holmes' stay in Lhasa, Tibet. What he unearths is the Mandala, written by a wily Bengali scholar, Hurrie Chunder Mookerjee, Holmes' travelling companion. The Mandala holds the key to the mystery and reveals Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing that it is difficult to resist. An exciting, often richly humorous detective story The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes also evokes the romance of Kipling's India. Winner of the Crossword Book Award for Fiction 2000 Jamyang Norbu is director of the Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, Dharamsala. He is the author of Warriors of Tibet, the biography of a Kampa warrior; Illusion and Reality, a collection of his political essays, and the editor of The Performing Traditions of Tibet. He was also the director of the Tibetan Institute of the Performing Arts and has written five plays and a traditional opera libretto. Norbu has lectured on Tibetan culture and the freedom struggle at more than a hundred universities and institutions in the USA, Canada, Australia, France, India, Japan and the UK. He has also appeared on a number of televison and radio shows and interviews all over the world to argue the case of Tibet.