Eva Phileta Wright
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Eva Phileta Wright

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Eva Phileta Wright, November 21, 2024 I was educated in the United States, boarding at Northfield Mount Hermon School during my high school days, and subsequently attending the New School in New York city. There I studied history and anthropology and baked many cakes in my free time. I met Tibet for the first time on a holiday break during the year I spent teaching English in Hangzhou in China. Being a tourist for a few weeks convinced me that the landscape was spectacular, the people inscrutable and the climate quite unsuitable for me. I had to go back. Understanding this region of the world became a challenge to me. During my second vacation visit to Tibetan lands I met the wife of Tenzin’s oldest son. Her marriage had been broken up by the Chinese police who knew, as she did not at the time, that her husband’s father and grandfather were Tibetan royalty. The police considered it a security risk for a member of the Tibetan aristocracy to marry an American. I gradually heard bits and pieces of her father-in-law’s story from her husband’s younger brother. After some time, a tulku I barely knew told me more about my husband’s family. During a later meeting with that tulku, he told me I should write a book about the Tea and Horse Trail caravans. I replied that I knew little about that aspect of Tibetan life. The tulku scoffed at my statement, saying I could get all the information I needed from the Library of Congress. Some years later, I discovered he was right, that much information about the caravan life could be learned from the oral histories kept at the Library of Congress. This book evolved from those uncertain beginnings. Now since a few readers have enjoyed the stories, I am letting the stories out into a book that can be obtained by a wider audience. To an American, Tibetan culture is almost dystopian in its differences from American or any modern culture, so I would advise a reader to read this book as a work of science fiction. After finishing the book, it would be fine to consider that the contents are real or maybe unreal. Some of the more fantastic encounters in the book are real (who could make such things up?) but I was unable to verify that the protagonists in this book were there at that time. Hence, this is a work of fiction. I hope it has enough in it to tell each reader something worth knowing.
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