Linda Leaming is from Nashville, Tennessee and began her spiritual journey leaving home and everything she loved, because she felt that in this samsara she needed to be in Bhutan. It was a nearly impossible feat for a lone American woman in the mid-1990s, but she knew it would improve her life in every way, especially her spiritual life. The Bhutanese were very good about it and they eventually let her stay. She married into a family of Dorji Lingpa practitioners and this is the Buddhism she knows. In her column, Buddha in a Teacup, she shares her journey in Bhutan, all of the good and not so good, and how she seeks liberation. She is the author of "Married to Bhutan," and "A Field Guide to Happiness," and the forthcoming "No Right Angles," all books about life in Bhutan.