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Love and the Spiritual Journey |
April 7, 2011 |
| Reviewer:
Mary Young from Delhi, NY United States
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Chronicles of Love and Death, My Years with the Lost Spiritual King of Bhutan is Norma Levine's poignant and riveting memoir of the five years she spent as the consort of Ngawang Jigmai, the exiled ninth Shabdrung of Bhutan. This funny, sad and exquisitely written saga is a tale of love and woe between a beautiful western spiritual seeker and the reincarnation of one of the greatest tantric Buddhist masters ever to have lived. Impossible to put down, Chronicles is by turns romantic, sexy, spine tingling and spiritually-informed, even as it offers up an accurate account of the history and politics surrounding the exiled Shabdrung who, in a much earlier incarnation, created the kingdom and distinctive customs of Bhutan. Ousted by a bloody political intrigue in the early 20th century, the Shabdrung continues to take rebirth, in the hopes that he will one day regain his rightful seat as both the temporal and spiritual ruler of Bhutan.
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