She would no longer be serving his sexual demands enduring his pinches, punches, and kicks or listening to him drunkenly recount hallucinated conversations with the long-dead sages of medieval Tibet. After being called in to say a brief goodbye, Hays walked out into the evening, secretly relieved Trungpa was dying. Trungpa had taken her as one of his seven spiritual wives two years earlier. While the cohort chanted and prayed, twenty-five-year-old Leslie Hays listened from outside the door.
Also present was Trungpa’s twenty-four-year-old son, Mipham Rinpoche. Rich was joined by Diana Mukpo (formerly Diana Pybus), who had married Trungpa in 1970, a few months after she turned sixteen. Standing by Trungpa’s deathbed was Thomas Rich, his spiritual successor.
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