Janet Peyton Watson

Born in Cambridge, England on July 21st, 1939 she was a constant seeker who found her path in the teachings of two great Rinpoches; Chogyam Trungpa and Sakyong Mipham. Dharma gave her life meaning as she walked the path to her next great adventure.

After working for the Sangha for years she bought and operated the Attic Owl Bookshop in Halifax and Dartmouth from which she retired to the country thirteen years ago.

Her health began to decline a couple of years ago and she was reluctantly persuaded to remove to Dartmouth to be closer to family and medical support. However, she was preparing, for on her bookshelf was a volume of Japanese Death Poems in which one by Jakura (1906) was marked. This year I want/ To see the lotus/ From the other side.

Predeceased by her parents; Jean Ada (Moss) Watson, and Edward Peyton Watson, and her younger brother, Jonathan (Carol), she is survived by two brothers, Peter (Marianne), Australia, and Julian, Ireland; her son, Gregory Nichols (Lisa), Tennessee; Daughter Kate Langan (John), Dartmouth; grandson, Cameron Ax, (Erica), Halifax; grand-daughter, Mikaela Lionetti-Nichols, Colorado; and many nieces and nephews in Canada, the UK and Australia.

A funeral service will be conducted at the Shambhala Centre, Tower Road, Halifax at 1 pm AST on Monday, July 4th, 2022, after which her remains will be cremated and her ashes scattered at Dorje Denma Ling, Tatamagouche.