
Maya Tenzin, a 28-year-old former monk from the Potala Palace, escaped Tibet with nothing but her grandmother's sacred thangka painting and a laptop. Now living in Brooklyn, she digitizes ancient mandalas as NFTs, encoding each with traditional mantras in the metadata. Her first collection, "108 Digital Dharma Wheels," sells for modest amounts to meditation practitioners worldwide.
But something extraordinary begins happening. Collectors report synchronized meditation experiences—strangers in different countries see identical visions while contemplating the same NFT. A tech executive in Singapore claims her depression vanished after purchasing "Compassion Mandala #47." A war veteran in Texas experiences his first peaceful sleep in years after acquiring "Healing Lotus #23."
When Silicon Valley billionaire Marcus Reed attempts to buy Maya's entire catalog to create an exclusive "digital monastery" for the ultra-wealthy, she faces an impossible choice. Selling would fund refugee monasteries across India and Nepal, but keeping digital enlightenment exclusive contradicts everything Buddhism teaches about universal compassion.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government traces the NFTs' blockchain signatures, threatening to arrest Maya's remaining family in Tibet. As collectors worldwide form spontaneous prayer circles to protect her, Maya realizes her digital mandalas have created something unprecedented—a global sangha connected not by geography, but by blockchain.
"Character Arcs:"
- Maya: Struggles between preserving tradition and embracing innovation
- Marcus Reed: Transforms from exploitative collector to genuine practitioner
- Dr. Sarah Kim (quantum physicist collector): Discovers scientific basis for the miracles
"Themes:"Cultural appropriation vs. sharing wisdom, commercialization of spirituality, collective consciousness through technology, refugee experiences in digital age
"Setting" 2025 Brooklyn artist lofts, Silicon Valley boardrooms, Tibetan refugee camps, virtual meditation spaces
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