A Step Away from Paradise
The True Story of a Tibetan Lama's
Journey to a Land of Immortality
Penguin, 2011
City Lion Press, 2017
Writings & Photography
Thomas K. Shor
Writings and Photography
The stories in this collection all depict real people and events except for The Tunnels of the Creator, which is a work of fiction.
ILLUSTRATED WITH 25 PHOTOGRAPHS
NEWLY RELEASED!
December, 2022
Krishna’s Mill
Stories from India
THE PEOPLE YOU MEET...
A yogi in his Himalayan retreat who was once a millionaire Bombay cloth manufacturer, forced to return to keep his sons from killing each other over the empire he left behind.
An American Buddhist, a “Defender of the Dharma,” who confesses having defended his life, with death, and knows the feeling of a knife going into human flesh.
A long-haired Indian artist and philosopher who sings ecstatically the poems of the English Romantics, reads Sanskrit and German philosophers in the original, and paints miniature paintings made entirely from tiny dots that are but two-dimensional slices of the world he sees within the ‘Interior of the Dot’.
AND THE PLACES YOU GO...
From the exclusive Breach Candy Club on Bombay’s Arabian Sea, to a zoo in Darjeeling where an ancient Siberian Tiger lays dying…and to a remote Himalayan village where it is said that in some dim antiquity the early inhabitants built their very own Tower of Babel made of clay pots, meant to reach Heaven.
Is there really a temple complex and mountain in South India said to be underlaid by a vast network of tunnels so old their existence is clothed in legend and through which an entire population was said to have disappeared?
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The Baba Downstairs
The Life Story
of a Misfit Indian Saint
Shortly after Vikram moved in downstairs and started telling me his life story, he told me the rule by which he lived his life:
“Live such that no one can make an adjective stick to you. Accept no one’s label. Confuse them. Act one way one moment, and another way the next. Make them wonder. Make them guess. Is he a good man or a bad? Could he really be a saint? Or is he a rogue? What is he? Is he a mystic, or is he just a fool?”
From my side, I felt as if I’d entered a scene I’d sometimes imagined as an opening for an as-yet unwritten piece of fiction...
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Animated Landscape Photography from the Greek Island of Ikaria in Black and White
Black & White Photographic Portraits from the Sacred Indian City of Varanasi, on the Ganges River