My plans for 2027 and beyond are to live and study between India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. A complete journey through the living wisdom of Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Meditation, philosophy, sacred texts, ethics, and daily practice. My work can look diverse from the outside, but it coheres around one intention: May all beings be happy, and free from suffering.
The Route
Three Rooms, Three Libraries
Photo via Wikimedia CommonsIndiaMysoreThe writing stretch. An old royal city on the Karnataka plateau, in the mildest and driest weather India offers, with a Sanskrit manuscript institute down the road and a town that goes to bed early. This is where things get finished.
Photo via Wikimedia CommonsNepalBoudhanathThe study stretch. A Tibetan town built in rings around the great stupa, where the circumambulation route is also the high street. Classical Tibetan, teachings given with translation, and a green monsoon that empties the place of everyone else.
Photo via Wikimedia CommonsSri LankaKandyThe research stretch. Weeks in the central hills between the Buddhist Publication Society's reading room and the Peradeniya library, pointed at whatever the rest of the road has raised and only a Pali collection can settle.
Read in one place, write in another, and let the road between them do the sorting.
Support
Support Me On My Journey
About $500 a month covers everything I need to keep going: the room, the food, the buses, the flights, the visas, and medical. It stays that low because the life is a small one: one bag, one room, and a walk to the library. Nothing is owed and nothing is expected. If it interests you, put something toward the next month, to support me on my journey. Thank you for your kind generosity.
