Thomas K Shor

"IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers-a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the one with the secret knowledge of how to 'open' the Hidden Land. Then, one day, he came. His name was Tulshuk Lingpa. This book tells the story of this charismatic visionary lama and his remarkable...

This book tells the true story of an Indian man named Vikram, whose strange fate it was to be born with a large birthmark identical to the birthmark of the holy man, or baba, who died immediately after blessing Vikram's mother to have a son. So from the very beginning, Vikram was raised as the old baba's reincarnation. At first Vikram goes along with it. He even believes it. He tries, in his childish way, to play the part. But when he probes his suspicions...

SHORT STORIES FROM INDIA THE PEOPLE YOU MEET... A yogi in his Himalayan retreat who was once a millionaire Bombay cloth manufacturer, forced to return to keep his sons from killing each other over the empire he left behind. An American Buddhist, a "Defender of the Dharma," who confesses having defended his life, with death, and knows the feeling of a knife going into human flesh. A long-haired Indian artist and philosopher who sings ecstatically...