By Way of The Sea

BY WAY OF THE SEA - A Buddhist Novel

A Tibetan Buddhist Monk's Journey of Discovery

Leaving his homelands of Tibet and travelling through Nepal and into India, a Tibetan Buddhist monk begins a journey to see the sea he has always dreamed of.

Encountering many on his travels each hold a valuable lesson for him as together they explore the concepts of attachment, impermanence, kindness and compassion and karma and reincarnation.

NOTE FROM PUBLISHER

By Way of The Sea is a tale of a soul's want for travel and discovery and to understand faith's mysteries. Told with sensitivity and subtle teachings, By Way of The Sea is ideal for readers who are intrigued by Buddhism and have always wanted to uncover what lays behind its peaceful foundations of how to be.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in England, Julian Bound is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. With photographic work featured on the BBC news, his photographs have been published in National Geographic, New Scientist and in the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions.

Living in Asia and South East Asia for over a decade, Julian travelled extensively throughout Tibet between the years of 2004 and 2014. Having lived in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, he studied meditation under the tuition of the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and with spiritual teachers of India's Himalaya region.

With portraiture work of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has photographed the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India. His other projects include the boy soldiers of Myanmar's Karen National Liberation Army, the gypsies of Rajasthan, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia.

Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations.

Julian is also the author of novels The Geisha and The Monk, Subway of Light, Life's Heart Eternal and Of Futures Past.