I recently came across these delightful vignettes about the late Princess Maya Phaya Lat and her husband, Thakin Kin Maung Lat. They were written by an English convert to Buddhism, who lived with them for a period, at Kalimpong, in the foothills of the Himalayas.

http://www.sangharakshita.org/bookshelf/facing-kanchenjunga.pdf
http://www.sangharakshita.org/bookshelf/golden-wheel.pdf

With best wishes to all for the New Year.

Christopher Buyers