My name is Lopon Natsok Zugchen, and I am a lineage holder of the Tantra in Nyingma sect. This small book Love Which Crossed the Ocean of Clouds is a true love story between me and my wife, Monza Tsewang Rigzin Chokey Wangmo. All of the stories written here depict real incidents and do not contain imagination or fictional elements.The way I wrote this love story starts from the day we met in June 2010. I felt compelled to jot down notes of important events happening in our daily lives. When I came back to my home after meeting her in Bhutan, I composed an account based on these diary notes. At that time, I wrote it simply from my memory. I didn't have any plans to write a book and publish it. Later, I posted the account for the Lunyon literature competition and I took first place out of fifty writers from inside Tibet and in exile. After that, my love and I faced many obstacles and it took five years before we could live together. She always told me to keep writing and to translate our story into English. The account I had written before was completed as the first chapter of this book and I continued to write. As a writer, I hope this book will benefit readers.
Love Which Crossed the Ocean of Clouds, HE Lopon Natsok Zugchen, Paperback, 2018, 171 pp, $14.99
His Eminence Lopon Natsok Zugchen was born on the 18th day
of the 12th Tibetan lunar month, in 1969, with many auspicious
signs such as rainbows appearing above the tent where he was
born. His birth year, month, and day are the same as the Great
Vidyadhara Rigzin Jigme Lingpa. When he was three months
old, Chakshul Tulku Sangay Lodr� and the renowned doctor of
Gyalrong, Samdup Gyatso, recognized him as an incarnation of
the noble Upasaka Dharmata. He started to learn reading at the
age of eight. His scholastic knowledge became famous after his
long years of intense studies about Sutra and Tantra of
Buddhist doctrines in Traling Monastery, Gemang Hermitage
Serta Larung Gar, etc.
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