'In 1892, 18 year old Lin enters a mountain nunnery, where she begins a journey that will take her on a difficult spiritual and physical path. Her dream is to work for equality for women in the Buddhist world.
'Five years later, taking Buddhist scrolls and her beloved bamboo flute and accompanied by the Tibetan monk Labsang, she sets out to travel the remote and mountainous Horse Tea Road that leads to Tibet. Arriving in Lhasa many months later, she meets the 13th Dalai Lama before journeying on to the village where she will teach for six years. One of her pupils, Pema Choki, is a very special girl on whose behalf Lin will have to challenge the practises and beliefs of the high lamas.' (Publication summary)
