El guardián de la flor de loto
The murder in Harvard of an important Lama doctor called Logsan Singay, just a few hours before he was due to give a conference in which he was to reveal to the Western World the extraordinary secrets of Tibetan medicine, uncovers a conspiracy which could threaten the survival of the Tibetan people.
Jacobo is a young Spanish sympathiser of the Tibetan cause who after years of living in the jungles of Peru is in the middle of a personal and sentimental crisis, when he receives an order from his girlfriend’s father. Martha’s father, Malcolm Farewell is an English industrialist and tireless supporter of the Tibetan cause living in India. Jacobo is to supervise the repatriation of the Lama doctor’s body back to the exiled Tibetan government based in the Indian town of Dharamsala.
By helping in this way, Jacobo inadvertently becomes a piece of the puzzle, and as the story unfolds, is the only person able to solve the conspiracy. Like the classical heroes, he is guided by supernatural powers and a renewed personal commitment.
In order to expose the murderers and discover their true intentions Jacobo will have to fight the most extreme groups of the government in exile, as well as the Red Faith, a sect which dangerously mixes its own particular view of Buddhism with claims for independence. This sect is the main suspect of the death of the Lama doctor.
Jacobo is attacked but brought back to life thanks to the techniques that Logsan Singay was going to reveal in Boston. This marks the beginning of his physical and spiritual healing and allows him to unearth the real reasons that made him grow apart from Martha and their daughter, Louise, who has suffered from a chronic illness since she was a baby.
Following the clues that he finds in Dharamsala, Jacobo enters illegally into occupied Tibet and defying the army of Beijing travels to the western militarised region bordering Cachemire. He is on the trail of one of the terma (treasures) hidden by the master Buddhist Padmasambhava in the 7th. Century: the Treaty of Magic of Ancient Tibet, a legendary scroll from which Logsan Singay, the Lama doctor learnt all his wisdom.
Jacobo continues his quest with the help of a Lama called Gyentse and a group of nomad warriors belonging to the ethnic group kampa. Together they have to confront not only the army but also the irrepressible nature of the Himalayas, finding themselves forced to cross the mountain range on foot.
It’s just possible that at the end of their journey they will come face to face with a truth whose dimensions they had never even imagined.
An action-packed journey, full of intrigue, poetry and love which transports the reader to a magical universe where all problems have a solution in the eyes of the Tibetan philosophy of life and the world.