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A courageous woman. A lost 7th century Buddhist manuscript. A harrowing journey through Tibet. The manuscript must be brought home -- to the Samye monastery from which it was taken a hundred years ago.
Helm Publishing
March 2006
On Sale: February 22, 2006
Featuring: Sigourney Phillips; John Henley
316 pages
ISBN: 0976919362
EAN: 9780976919360
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Sigourney’s Quest is a novel about a courageous woman, a
lost 7th century Buddhist manuscript, and a harrowing
journey through Tibet. The manuscript must be brought
home by Sigourney Phillips to the Tibetan monastery from
which it was taken one hundred years ago. During her
quest, she reads the diary of Anne Hopkins, an
Englishwoman who secretly entered Tibet by posing as a
pilgrim. It was Anne who took the manuscript from Tibet
to save it, and her diary provides insight and inspiration
to Sigourney during her own journey. The two women’s
spirits become intertwined as Sigourney undertakes ordeals
similar to the ones described by Anne. Sigourney’s Quest is filled with physical, emotional and
spiritual trials. She must evade Chinese officials and
spies who are trying to prevent the manuscript from being
returned, outwit the political intrigues of Tibetan monks,
and undertake extraordinary hardships. But the novel is
more than an adventure. It is a story about lost hope and
personal rebirth. Sigourney has watched her own life
unravel, and returning the ancient manuscript becomes her
quest to find the self-confidence and inner peace to build
a new one. She must strive to achieve her own Nirvana,
just as the Tibetans have done for centuries. Her future
and the future of Tibetan Buddhism depend on her success.
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