Teen tending her Tibetan roots

Tenying Yangsel was born in Tibet, but her country is little more than a state of mind.
Her mother fled to India with 1-month-old Tenying and her brothers, then 2 and 4. Five years ago, she left her children with her sister in Nepal to come to New York City to work as a nanny.

The name of the robes

Tales of astral flying, monks who meditate until their heads bleed and gurus who leave handprints in a rock pop up regularly in Mick Brown’s The Dance of 17 Lives. Yet, unlike the author’s 1999 The Spiritual Tourist