Linda Leaming lives in Thimphu, Bhutan. She is the author of two memoirs, Married to Bhutan and A Field Guide to Happiness. A collection of essays about Bhutan is forthcoming.

Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Linda began her spiritual journey by leaving her home and everything she loved to be in Bhutan—a nearly impossible feat for a lone American woman in the mid-1990s. Linda married into a family of Dorji Lingpa practitioners and this is the Buddhism she knows. In her column, Buddha in a Teacup, Linda seeks to share her journey—all of the good and not as good—and how she seeks liberation.