A Journey In Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism

This celebrated work is more than a travelogue—it is the meticulous, soul-baring record of a spiritual awakening in one of the world’s last untouched landscapes.

• From Oxford to the Himalayas: Follow a skeptical Western intellectual as he sheds the armor of irony and academia to confront a raw, transformative landscape and a faith that must be lived, not merely studied.
• The Guru and the Seeker: Witness profound, life-altering encounters with masters like Thuksey Rinpoche, whose teachings on compassion and reality challenge the very foundations of the author’s world.
• The Wisdom of Emptiness: Explore the core of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy not as abstract theory, but as a lived experience of Sunyata—a spacious, liberating awareness found in the stark beauty of the mountains.
• A Disappearing World: Experience Ladakh in 1981, a culture on the brink of change, through lyrical prose that captures its people, traditions, and the sacred silence that modernity threatens to erase.