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LOVE
& LOSS
A
Story About Life, Death, and Rebirth
A Memoir
By
Jane Bay
“Jane Bay takes us through her personal process of overcoming the death of her Tibetan daughter that culminates in an uplifting conclusion despite the inherently tragic circumstances that are at the heart of the story.” -- Deepak Chopra – author, Peace Is The Way
“This book will be a balm for anyone whose heart still aches from
a profound loss.”
-- Daniel Goleman – author, Social Intelligence
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In
her compelling memoir LOVE & LOSS – A Story About Life,
Death, and Rebirth, Jane Bay gives us a glimpse of the invisible
web of connectedness between us and its power to help heal even the deepest
of wounds. In sharing the loss of her Tibetan foster daughter, Namgyal
Youdon, Bay offers a rare opportunity to travel through the agonizing
process of grieving, and experience the power and healing of unconditional
love.
LOVE
& LOSS is something of a sequel to Bay’s first book
PRECIOUS JEWELS OF TIBET – A Journey to the Roof of the
World, in that this book begins where PRECIOUS JEWELS
ended. Namgyal was thirteen years old when Bay met her at the Tibetan
Children’s Village in Dharamsala while traveling with a former monk
from the Dalai Lama’s monastery to visit the sacred Buddhist sites
in India. The following year, Namgyal was forced to return to Tibet by
a directive issued by the Chinese Communist Government in Lhasa that required
all children who were studying in India to return to the “motherland.”
Failure to comply could lead to the parents losing their jobs, their homes
and food ration cards, and possible imprisonment. Bay lost all contact
with her daughter for three years. When she was reunited with Namgyal,
Bay vowed they would never be separated again in this lifetime. She had
no warning that Namgyal’s life would be cut short, just ten days
before coming to the U.S. for the first time.
LOVE
& LOSS is a story about the bond that was forged between
a motherless child and a childless mother, and the consequences of Namgyal’s
life and death on the author’s life. It is played out in the rich
fabric of the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism inside Tibet, in India
and America.
LOVE
& LOSS is written as an “Email Diary” about Bay’s
relationship with her Tibetan daughter. It is based on emails she sent
out immediately after Namgyal died, replies she received from her ‘Dear
Friends,” emails from Namgyal’s brothers, one in Tibet and
one in India, before and after Namgyal’s death, and emails that
she and Namgyal exchanged during the last two years of Namgyal’s
life. Bay has written brief narratives that are interwoven throughout
the emails to complete the story.
Excerpt from LOVE & LOSS:
For months after Namgyal died, I was unable to talk openly
about the sorrow I held in my heart, but I found I could express the depths
of my emotions by writing about my experiences. It created a safe place,
a sanctuary, a container to hold the pain. Who could ever have imagined
that through the relatively impersonal medium of email I would be able
to come to the end of mourning, celebrating the gifts of grief I had received
by loving and losing Namgyal Youdon.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jane Bay has worked at Lucasfilm Ltd. in Marin County, California
for twenty-nine years. She calls herself a “Sunday writer,”
and is currently working on two other books: GROWING UP SOUTHERN –
Stories from the Attic of Childhood Memories, and an anthology of short
stories entitled THE MAGIC OF NEW MEXICO.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
LOVE & LOSS – A Story About Life, Death, and Rebirth
A Memoir By Jane Bay
Pub Date: September 2006 -- 5.5 X 8.5, 416 pages
30 color photographs – ISBN 1-57416-088-5
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Adrienne Biggs at 415-453-4474
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Clear Light Publishing, 823 Don Diego, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
www.clearlightbooks.com
