EPISODE FOUR: Hidden Lands

EPISODE FOUR: Hidden Lands

EPISODE FOUR: Hidden Lands One of my strongest memories is of my family’s smoky kitchen with its clay hearth and a platform hung from the rafters holding the firewood. Here, vegetables were chopped, tea was churned, and our nostrils turned black as we fed the...
EPISODE TWO: To Cry or Not To Cry

EPISODE TWO: To Cry or Not To Cry

EPISODE TWO: To Cry or Not To Cry After barely surviving more than half a century of this hallucination of life—having driven thousands of miles on some of the most treacherous roads in places like India and Bhutan, having flown hundreds of thousands of miles around...
EPISODE ONE: Leaving Home

EPISODE ONE: Leaving Home

EPISODE ONE: Leaving Home My life is an apparition, a hallucination, a projection that has yet to dim. This apparition has a timeframe, a logic, and just like the sun, it will set. Depending on the swinging of my mood, this life sometimes appears long and sometimes...
Why Mugwort?

Why Mugwort?

Why Mugwort? Rinpoche was born in a remote village in eastern Bhutan called Khenpajong, which doesn’t exist anymore. Khenpajong means “village of mugwort” in the local language. Thus, Rinpoche is the mugwort-born. Mugwort is a form of artemisia and...