The Gilded Sutra

By Julia Todd

Hannah, a young teacher in rural Vermont in 1880, is restless with her quiet life. When her brother--a student of the Transcendentalists in Massachusetts--is offered a college teaching job in India, Hannah defies the wishes of her family and leaves the life she knows to go with him.

In India she soon meets Sonam, an engineering student from Nepal, who has been entrusted by his father with a secret mission: to bring an ancient, gilded Buddhist manuscript--The Heart Sutra--to sacred Bodhgaya, where the Buddha became enlightened. Hannah and Sonam soon fall in love, but theirs is a forbidden romance and they must keep it hidden . . . along with the Heart Sutra. Protecting the valuable manuscript soon becomes dangerous however, and after Sonam mysteriously disappears in the mountains of Nepal, Hannah--to her dismay--finds herself in possession of the gilded manuscript and on a ship back to America, knowing she must find a way to complete Sonam's mission. Full of adventure and romance, The Gilded Sutra is a lively story of East meets West and Transcendentalism meets Buddhism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647423635
• ISBN13: 9781647423636
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 256 Pages