Rodger Kamenetz

The poet who went along to Dharamsala in 1990 to observe and wrote it up as The Jew in the Lotus (1994) — an account that became the book of a generation of Jewish Buddhists who had gone east partly because nobody told them the mystical wing at home had a door.

The chronicler of the deliberate crossing, and the reason it is a shared story rather than a footnote.