Norma Levine
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Norma Levine

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Norma (or Naomi) Levine was born near Montreal, Canada and after completing her graduate degrees in Drama and Literature from McGill and Toronto Universities, moved to London UK in the 70’s. Her thesis on a British playwright, brought her to Hay-on-Wye in the Black Mountains of Wales where she dropped out of academic life, opened up the first natural food shop, and turned on to Buddhism after meeting the 16th Karmapa. She lived for five years at Sherabling Monastery, the seat of His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche, in Himachal Pradesh North India, practising meditation, and became the companion/consort of the exiled spiritual king of Bhutan. On returning from India in 1986, she established a web based mail order business, Windhorse Imports to provide Buddhist meditation artefacts to a growing community. She has travelled extensively in Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Ladakh, Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh; and organised pilgrimages to Mt. Kailash in Western Tibet and the hidden land of Pemako in Arunachal Pradesh (NE India). She is the author of 5 books on Buddhist themes and has written for the major London newspapers. She now lives in Malvern, Worcestershire, and devotes her time to writing, gardening, and walking the Malvern Hills with her dog, Tara, an elegant lurcher.
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