A Step Away From Paradise: A Tibetan Lama's Extraordinary Journey To A Land Of Immortality - Plot & Excerpts
Both its existence and its opening are cloaked in mystery and are meant to be kept secret. Tulshuk Lingpa’s teachers, Chatral Rinpoche and Dudjom Rinpoche, warned him to keep quiet and take only a few disciples. They cautioned that Beyul could not be opened by brute force. Yet events seemed to take on a life of their own. Tulshuk Lingpa had taken center stage at the central monastery in Sikkim and the numbers of his followers were growing daily, all of whom were intent on vanishing from this world and all its problems to enter a land that was known to exist on the slopes of Mount Kanchenjunga ever since people first started living in the land that became known as Sikkim.The original inhabitants of Sikkim were the Lepchas, an ancient group of people who since the earliest times spoke of a valley hidden on the slopes of their sacred mountain Kanchenjunga. In order to understand the Lepchas’ knowledge of the Hidden Land I went to Sonam Lepcha, one of the culture holders of the Lepcha community, a musician and keeper of their most ancient lore.‘We call this land—the land of the Lepcha, what others call the Darjeeling Hills and Sikkim—Mayel Lyang,’ he told me.
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