The Last Lama Warrior: The Secret Martial Art of Tibet

"The Last Lama Warrior" SEEMS TO BE a fine rich introduction to Tibetan "Health-Defense" -- with great presentation of Outer, Inner and Heart levels of Senguei Ngaro [The Lion's Roar]. Included are legend, history and wisdom concerning this "Way of the Protectors". If Overviewed with reflection and connection -- the parts come together to make a Whole that is Total. Like other World "Health-Defense" Traditions -- "The Last Lama Warrior" concerns "protecting" Spirit-and-Matter -- as they are not separate in an Overview. In particular a Lion's Roar version of Dzogchen-Mahamudra-Atiyoga seems presented -- blended-in all this work in both detour and direct ways. The philosophy, meditation and application explanations are as good as any I have seen -- and great little hints applicable to "Health-Defense" are in these as well. This author SEEMS to have an UNVERIFIABLE *lineage* _- and the whole style as presented does not accord too well with other Lion's Roar / Lama Pai / Hop Gar / White Crane Arts -- causing me to reduce my rating by two stars.Likewise likely "Health-Defense" posture-flows are presented in detour and direct ways. If the posture-photos starting on page 147 are carefully looked-into and compared to their many animal and elemental linkages -- more learning is added-to the direct descriptions near the posture-photos. Another level of learning is via linking these photos via number into visual-flows -- which DO seem to link-up into a natural COUNTER-ROTATION FLOW -- even when checked against the photo-backgrounds. It is seen that such a FLOW includes counter-rotations of upper-and-lower -- square-and-across -- coiled-and-spread -- therefore IDEAL for great human-form health.As for "protection" application -- there are not a very large total number of "protection" postures presented -- but these medium-small number DO seem to represent ALL main types of natural posture-flows to cover ALL main angles, layers and levels of "protection" -- therefore allowing for IDEAL immediate streamlined adaptable "protection" -- using posture-flows to FIT-IN with opposition to DEFLECT it away, down and out -- via sweeps and tie-ups in particular -- spiced-up with blows, grips and pokes as necessary -- all as indicated by posture-flows.This is all from a PERSONAL point-of-view of a reviewer with a strong informal interest in "Tibetan Boxing" -- and a follower of a modestly streamlined independant Kenpo Art influenced deeply by "Tibetan White Crane" and Old-to-New Western Combat Arts -- as well as more usual Hawaii Kenpo sources such as "Chinese White Crane", Kenpo, Karate, Judo, Aikido and Arnis +++

Good story but no techiques.

Some of the aspects of this book were more Spiritual in Nature. As far as an Instructional Book on the Lama Kung-Fu it is more of an informational type of material.It has a few good points on how to deal with different systems.

One can purchase VCD instructional materials by senior instructors of this style, so clearly this book doesn't describe the last person to learn the art.

I thought John Gilbey put silliness like this to bed in Secret Fighting Arts of the World, but here it is. The Secret Martial Art of Tibet known only to some white guy. The book is a mix of Tibetan Buddhism, stories of how awesome the author's teacher was, and descriptions of how awesome this martial art is. I guess if your a student of Yogi Lama Tchouzar Pai this would be useful information.I almost want to give this 5 stars because it's so awful every martial artist should read it. It's like 19th century Orientalism and 1980's Ninja Theater made a baby and this is the book that baby wrote.

There is a real Tibetan art of Lions Roar. It took me about 20 years to finally track down the man who could teach this art. He is a Nyingma Lama living in the USA. Originally there was an oriental man in NY Chinatown who had a training center in the basement of this bar. A NY police dept detective and he got along very well so he eventually taught the detective Lions Roar. This is NOT the make believe Chinese knock off stuff splattered all over the internet. Years later I had a student who told me he had learned some basic moves of Lions Roar and he showed me. I started searching for the teacher and tracked down a guy living in Arkansas who had trained with him awhile. I went there and trained with this guy.Finally I tracked down the teacher, but he wouldn't train me. He said if I was Tibetan Buddhist and if I had mastered Trul Khor (A Tibetan exercise similar to yoga) then maybe he would consider it. He explained to me the esoteric side of Lions Roar and it's connection to the Protectors of Tibetan Dharma. Grasping that, you couldn't pay me enough to make me want to mess with Lions Roar without the permission of certain protectors.As to this book, I can't say. I wouldn't put a single word about Lions Roar in a book of any sort.

The book is an obvious fraud. I am a martial artist and a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and I know enough to see right through this scam. I suppose this guy, if he even exists, is trying to set himself up as some kind of guru to take advantage of gullible people. One giveaway is that everyone in his "lineage" is dead, he is the only survivor, and his dead teacher was an only survivor, etc, so there is no way to trace his legitimacy. Guys like this usually turn out to be predators looking to get peoples' money and have sex with gullible devotees. Check out his website. There's no real information there.

Rather than based upon Tibetan martial arts traditions that actually exist, this is more like the old "Green Ghost" made up comic book story wrapped in the "yeah, I am the ONLY ONE" isms . Sad that people think they can get away with this stuff in this day and age.

Near no images and no martial arts help to a martial artist whatsoever, just bhudism and stories. Avoid if looking for images of the form/pattern of lama style martial arts, this will be no help.

It is half a book as it only shows the history and main tips about this ancient martial art. It iwould be better to add more pictures and drawings of the exercises to do at home. Asanaro's books are better, more complete.

Very nice and spiritual book. I'm very happy to read here news author commentaries and beautiful photos of new thangka (that we don't see in french edition)