Silverstone, Marilyn. Ocean of Life: Visions of India and the Himalayan Kingdoms by Marilyn Silverstone. .

Aperture, 1985. [Before becoming a Tibetan Buddhist nun, Marilyn Silverstone  photographed subjects such as Albert Schweitzer. This book of stunning color photographs is from her work in India, Sikkiim, Bhutan, Ladakh, Nepal, Kashmir, and other areas in the region.]  Fine, stiff illustrated wraps.

Note:  London, England, was the birthplace on March 10, 1929, of Marilyn Silverstone, daughter of Murray Silverstone, an executive with United Artists and 20th-Century Fox. After her youth in Scarsdale and graduating from Wellesley, she worked as an editor, then became a photojournalist in 1955. Trips to India to photograph Ravi Shankar and the Dalai Lama enhanced her reputation. She lived in India for many years before moving to London with her partner Frank Moraes, a journalist.  In 1967, she became one of a handful of women photographers in the photographers’ cooperative Magnum. After learning Tibetan, Silverstone became a Buddhist nun with the name Ngawang Chodron in 1977 and moved to Kathmandu, Nepal, near where she died in a monastery after an eventful life on September 28, 1999.