Feather Meston with son Daja Wangchuk, 1973.

“The only explanation that makes any sense as to how I ended up walking up the hill to Kopan in 1973,” writes Ven. Thubten Wongmo (Feather Meston), “is that the walk up that path actually began in various past lives. I mean, think about it. How else would a young, nice-enough-looking social worker turned hippie gal from a rather famous Jewish Hollywood family possibly end up at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal? Traveling with her bearded Jewish hippie-artist-poet ex-husband and two-year-old son. But of course, it’s different these days … anyone who knows anything eventually finds Kopan and takes a meditation course, preferably the famous annual November course.”

Read her complete story of her travels through Europe and Asia, her star-studded family, and the dream that brought her to Kopan Monastery in Nepal.