Author: Mukpo, Diana J & Gimian, Carolyn Rose

It was not always easy to be the guru's wife, writes Diana Mukpo. "But I must say, it was rarely boring." At age 16, Mukpo left school and broke with her upper-class English family to marry a young Tibetan lama who was to become instrumental in the transmission of Buddhism to the West. Surprising events and colorful people fill the narrative as she seeks to understand her dynamic, puzzling, and larger-than-life husband of 17 years - and to find her place in his unusual world. Now in paper. 432 pp.