Like Andrew Harvey's Journey to Ladakh and Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, this is another great adventure into the Himalayas, visiting lonely monasteries, crossing through Tibet, Sikkim, and Nepal, and meeting with Buddhist lamas, who teach us about the mystery of our own being--our own buddha nature. 20 photographs.
I lived and practised meditation for 5 years at Sherabling Monastery in Himachal Pradesh; traveled extensively in Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Ladakh, Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh; and organised pilgrimages to Mt. Kailash in Western
Tibet and the hidden land of Pemako in Arunachal Pradesh (NE India),
As well as writing three books, I have written for some of the major London newspapers: The Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian. The Times Literary Review in London carried the first story about the Karmapa at his enthronement in 1992 at Tsurphu Monastery in Tibet: A Star is Raised and Borne.
I started the first natural food shop in Hay on Wye, one of the first outside London. On returning from India in 1986, I established a web based mail order business, Windhorse Imports to provide Buddhist meditation artefacts to a growing community and sold it in 2003. I was appointed the England media co-ordinator for the Karmapa 2010 Europe Tour (which was cancelled).
I have an M. Phil in drama and literature from the University of Toronto and completed a PHD thesis before escaping academic life to live in the book town of Hay-on-Wye
on the Welsh borders, famous for its International Literary Festival. I still spend some of the year in India but live in the UK .
