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Prologue

Since you have asked so many times, I will tell a bit about my life. In our Tibetan tradition, we begin a life story by tracing back one’s family to its origins. My family name is Tsangsar. My other name, as I am considered a reincarnation of a yogi, is Chöwang Tulku.

I was born in Central Tibet, taken to Kham, then went back and forth between the two several times.² I fled the communists to Sikkim and finally moved to Nepal, where I am now living as an old man. That’s my life in a nutshell. I haven’t accomplished any great deeds. Mostly it’s just one sad event after another.

Whenever I tell a story, I always avoid the two shortcomings of exaggeration and denigration—neither adding any extra qualities that someone does not possess nor refusing to acknowledge qualities that are truly present. As I am not the type of person who remembers specific dates, don’t look for any clear chronology here.

I can, however, tell you some of the stories I have heard, many of which come from my grandmother.