Jigme Singye Wangchuk

Happiness

Thomas Balmès

Peyangki, Kinley Om

Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas. Soon the world will come to him: the village is about to be connected to electricity, and the first television will flicker on before Peyangki's eyes.