A 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”
What’s it about?
A man travels to Nepal to scatter his brother’s ashes. He discovers his brother had a love child who became an unlikely Tibetan Buddhist shaman. The journey recreates his family and his sense of himself.
If you like Nepal travel, discovery of Buddhism, shamans, séances, and sex, this is for you.
Tags: Tibetan Buddhism, Nepal, Kathmandu, shamanism, trance, séance, religious fiction, Buddhist fiction, reincarnation, spiritualism, New Age, metaphysical fiction, psychic, occult
Where can I buy a copy?
Available online in paperback, Kindle or iBook formats.
Paperback and Kindle books are on amazon.com .
An iBook is on iTunes.
You can also buy the ePub directly on http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sevo/
Tell me more!
Thomas lands bewildered in Kathmandu, to find a place to scatter the ashes of his older brother Paul, who was a Peace Corps volunteer decades before in Nepal. He meets an American cohort of Paul’s and her parents who work with Tibetan refugees. Helen stayed and became a Buddhist nun. His visit prompts the surprising revelation that Paul is the father of her daughter. The girl, Eike, grew up in Kathmandu and became an unlikely Buddhist shaman, or healer.
His encounter with them is awkward but his mother in Seattle is thrilled. She is a Lithuanian refugee of World War II and lost her heritage. He finds echoes of his family’s history in the plight of Tibetan refugees, halfway across the world and half a century later.
Hanging around to get to know Paul’s daughter, Thomas dabbles in meditation and Tantric sex, flirts with Helen, and loses the ashes. They almost lose Eike when she goes ritual trance to guide her father out of bardo, the state between death and rebirth. There are seances and trances in Seattle and Kathmandu as their spirit worlds and real worlds converge.
He and the other characters are connected by the death and transmigration of Paul’s soul, the “white bird” that ties them together. Without knowing it, Thomas has followed a practice for grieving suggested in the Tibetan Book of the Dead: “Take a journey, do something to help the soul entering bardo.”
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:
A man travels to Nepal to scatter his brother’s ashes. He discovers his brother had a love child who became an unlikely Tibetan Buddhist shaman. The journey recreates his family and his sense of himself.
If you like Nepal travel, discovery of Buddhism, shamans, séances, and sex, this is for you.
Tags: Tibetan Buddhism, Nepal, Kathmandu, shamanism, trance, séance, religious fiction, Buddhist fiction, reincarnation, spiritualism, New Age, metaphysical fiction, psychic, occult
Where can I buy a copy?
Available online in paperback, Kindle or iBook formats.
Paperback and Kindle books are on amazon.com .
An iBook is on iTunes.
You can also buy the ePub directly on http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sevo/
Tell me more!
Thomas lands bewildered in Kathmandu, to find a place to scatter the ashes of his older brother Paul, who was a Peace Corps volunteer decades before in Nepal. He meets an American cohort of Paul’s and her parents who work with Tibetan refugees. Helen stayed and became a Buddhist nun. His visit prompts the surprising revelation that Paul is the father of her daughter. The girl, Eike, grew up in Kathmandu and became an unlikely Buddhist shaman, or healer.
His encounter with them is awkward but his mother in Seattle is thrilled. She is a Lithuanian refugee of World War II and lost her heritage. He finds echoes of his family’s history in the plight of Tibetan refugees, halfway across the world and half a century later.
Hanging around to get to know Paul’s daughter, Thomas dabbles in meditation and Tantric sex, flirts with Helen, and loses the ashes. They almost lose Eike when she goes ritual trance to guide her father out of bardo, the state between death and rebirth. There are seances and trances in Seattle and Kathmandu as their spirit worlds and real worlds converge.
He and the other characters are connected by the death and transmigration of Paul’s soul, the “white bird” that ties them together. Without knowing it, Thomas has followed a practice for grieving suggested in the Tibetan Book of the Dead: “Take a journey, do something to help the soul entering bardo.”
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:
