Tsering Namgyal Khortsa is a novelist and journalist. He is the author of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje: A Biography (Hay House 2013). He holds an MA in journalism from the University of Iowa and studied creative and literary non-fiction writing. He is based in Dehradun India.
<p>Dawa Tashi is an India-born Tibetan. His parents fled Tibet when the Chinese invaded and Dawa has grown up in the quiet verdant Indian Himalayas. When Dawa applies to a well-known university in America to pursue a course in creative writing his hitherto ordinary life changes dramatically. At the university he befriends and falls in love with Iris Pennington an unusual American student who is studying Buddhist literature. He also comes in contact with Khenchen Sangpo a renowned scholar of Buddhism and a reincarnated Rinpoche himself.</p><p>Circumstances lead Dawa back to India too soon but the connections he makes take his life into many new directions. With his Tibetan suitcase always by his side he now undertakes many journeys. Some with Iris and Khenchen take him deeper into the mystical and mysterious world of Buddhist scholarship. Other journeys take him back to his roots making him question his life’s directions.</p><p>Told in the form of letters and journal entries Tibetan Suitcase is a deeply moving novel about love and longing; about those who belong nowhere; about an existence without a motherland and negotiating in-between worlds.</p>
