Amita Lhamo uses her luminous stories to reveal the power of simple human kindness and the wisdom of being. She shares the beauty found blooming within the cracks of broken hearts leading us into the intimacy of the soul's journey in death.

"Accompanying her on these end-of-life journeys, we find unexpected moments of joy. We feel a little less afraid of our own deaths as well." – From the Foreward by Chagdud Khadro

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So often, the thought of death evokes our worst fears. We anticipate the opposite of anything we call living. Yet, something different happens when we invite death into the conversation. It enters a panoply of experience that includes gratitude, love, joy and wonder. Death reveals these gifts as often as tragedy and pain.

By the bedside of the dying, we learn an intimacy that includes the entirety of the human experience. We open rather than fight or run. We gaze into the eyes of death to ask what shines through all the brokenness. What remains?

Amita Lhamo uses her luminous stories to reveal the power of simple human kindness and the profundity of being. Within such places, souls peek through the soft spaces of broken hearts like dandelions blooming in the cracks of sidewalks. No matter which way we turn, we find one garden, one ground—we discover the wonder of any heart.

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As a psychotherapist, Amita specialized in death, dying, and grief, as well as trauma, chronic illness, and women’s issues. As a spiritual practitioner, she studied within the Lakota dream tradition, working with her first teacher for nearly a decade before meeting the lineage of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and studying with his Dzogchen lineage holder, Lama Drimed Norbu. Under his guidance, she completed a five-year meditation retreat in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She is the author of Dandelions Blooming in the Cracks of Sidewalks: Stories from the Bedside of the Dying, which received the Nautilus Book Award (gold) and Wisdom Moon: Presence in Dying. Amita holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies, and a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. Amita Lhamo is founder and steward of Three Kaya Publishing.

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