The author travelled to a distant realm, seeking out a cultural world in complete contrast to his own Malaysian waterfront experience. The Cycle Empire is a journey of philosophical self-contemplation undertaken while exploring a foreign land that is Tibet – pondering the details of its geographical, sociological, and religious conditions, and its dissimilitude to the country of one’s birth.

1. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) ? Description and travel. 2. Travel ? Anecdotes. 3. Traveler?s writings, Malaysian. 4. Travel writing.