Blessing Power of the Buddhas: Sacred Objects, Secret Lands

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.

Norma (Naomi) Levine has published three books on Buddhist themes: Blessing Power of the Buddhas; A Yearbook of Buddhist Wisdom; and, Chronicles of Love and Death: My Years with the Lost Spiritual King of Bhutan (Vajra Publications). She has organised pilgrimages to Mt. Kailash in Western Tibet, and to the hidden land of Pemako in Arunachal Pradesh (NE India), and written for some of the major London newspapers, including The Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, and The Guardian. She established a web based mail order business, Windhorse Imports in 1986 to provide Buddhist meditation artefacts to a growing community and sold it in 2003. She has 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. She divides her time between the UK and India.