Bibliography

My resources and references, plus additional reading on relevant subjects. Not a comprehensive list. Links open in a new tab

Nonfiction

Film

• Becoming a Woman in Zanskar (Documentary)
• Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint, 2006, dir. Neten Chokling (Fictionalized hagiography)

People

• Sravasti Abbey (English language Tibetan Buddhist abbey in Washington State)
• Theory of Samsara (Western-born Tibetan Buddhist monk recently returned from extended retreat)
• Bart Coppens (International entomologist)
• phurpa lhamo (Dolpo vlogger)
• Lajim Budha (Himalayan documentarian)

Readings

• One Plus One Makes Three, by Janet Gyatso
• The Last of the Fungus, by Zhengyang Wang
• The Wild Life of Yartsa Gunbu, by Daniel Winkler
• From A Skeleton to a Goddess: Changing Narratives around Women in the Buddhist Perspective, by Souraditya Banerjee
• Laboratory Rearing of Thitarodes armoricanus and Thitarodes jianchuanensis, by Zui Tao et al
• White Robes, Matted Hair: Tibetan Tantric Householders, Moral Sexuality, and the Ambiguities of Esoteric Buddhist Expertise in Exile, by Ben Philip Joffe
• How This Tibetan Community Is Modernizing a Centuries-Old Braiding Tradition, by Margaux Anbouba
• Cynicism and Magic, by Chogyam Trungpa
• Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, by Marylin M. Rhie and Robert Thurman

Fiction

• The Monk and the Gun, 2023, dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji (Fictionalized depiction of recent current events)
• Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni), by Haruko Ichikawa
• Queen of the Sea, by Dylan Meconis
• Misericorde, by Xeecee (Adult Content)

My most-used brushes

These are free downloads, with a paid version available if you also enjoy them and want to support the creators! For Procreate

• Natural Gouache, by Ittai Manero
• Colored Pencil, by Fatima Mandouh