A FUN BUDDHIST NOVEL
“I feel like I’ve just visited Nepal. … Thank you!!”
“A must read for travelers to Nepal…. I felt I travelled with him to the remote villages and back to Kathmandu.”
“An absorbing introduction to Nepalese culture and Tibetan Buddhism.”
“A traveler … uncovers not only family secrets, but a core of spirituality within himself”
“I couldn’t put the book down once I started reading it.”
“A crazy wonderful read! … I was constantly surprised.”
“…including one of the sexiest encounters imaginable”
“I feel like I’ve just visited Nepal. … Thank you!!”
“A must read for travelers to Nepal…. I felt I travelled with him to the remote villages and back to Kathmandu.”
“An absorbing introduction to Nepalese culture and Tibetan Buddhism.”
“A traveler … uncovers not only family secrets, but a core of spirituality within himself”
“I couldn’t put the book down once I started reading it.”
“A crazy wonderful read! … I was constantly surprised.”
“…including one of the sexiest encounters imaginable”
An accidental death launches a brother into strange, foreign adventures
Thomas is a laid-back handyman until his mother asks him to go to Kathmandu and scatter the ashes of his older brother Paul. He is totally unprepared for travel, especially to exotic Nepal.
He uncovers Paul’s past as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. There was a lover, Helen, who stayed behind to embrace Buddhism. Her parents are still there working with Tibetan refugees. He meets Eike, an unlikely Buddhist shaman, or healer. He dabbles in meditation and Tantric sex, flirts with Helen, and makes some big mistakes.
The ashes are one issue. The other is Paul’s soul, the “white bird,” trapped in the bardo, the state between death and rebirth. Spiritual dramas cross the world, dragging Thomas’ soul into new territory.
Tags: Tibetan Buddhism, Nepal, Kathmandu, shamanism, trance, séance, religious fiction, Buddhist fiction, reincarnation, spiritualism, New Age, metaphysical fiction, psychic, occult
An iBook is on iTunes.
You can also buy the ePub directly on http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sevo/
What possessed you?
Sevo is a former Indian studies Ph.D. and a fan of E.M. Forster and the Victorians Alexandra David-Neel and Madam Blavatsky.
What about the photo of a stupa on the cover?
© Erwin Voogt http://www.erwinvoogt.com Used with permission.
See more about the author, the novel and a blog:
Go to Goodreads, a website for readers and writers.
Here's a story of my hike in Nepal in 2013:
Thomas is a laid-back handyman until his mother asks him to go to Kathmandu and scatter the ashes of his older brother Paul. He is totally unprepared for travel, especially to exotic Nepal.
He uncovers Paul’s past as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. There was a lover, Helen, who stayed behind to embrace Buddhism. Her parents are still there working with Tibetan refugees. He meets Eike, an unlikely Buddhist shaman, or healer. He dabbles in meditation and Tantric sex, flirts with Helen, and makes some big mistakes.
The ashes are one issue. The other is Paul’s soul, the “white bird,” trapped in the bardo, the state between death and rebirth. Spiritual dramas cross the world, dragging Thomas’ soul into new territory.
Tags: Tibetan Buddhism, Nepal, Kathmandu, shamanism, trance, séance, religious fiction, Buddhist fiction, reincarnation, spiritualism, New Age, metaphysical fiction, psychic, occult
An iBook is on iTunes.
You can also buy the ePub directly on http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sevo/
What possessed you?
Sevo is a former Indian studies Ph.D. and a fan of E.M. Forster and the Victorians Alexandra David-Neel and Madam Blavatsky.
What about the photo of a stupa on the cover?
© Erwin Voogt http://www.erwinvoogt.com Used with permission.
See more about the author, the novel and a blog:
Go to Goodreads, a website for readers and writers.
Here's a story of my hike in Nepal in 2013:
