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hardcoverhearts's review
5.0
Just fantastic.
This was given to me as a gift from Aunt Alex, and I am so grateful. It is such a unique story- a Dutchman who moves to Japan to live in a Zen monastery and study Buddhism. Being someone who has always wanted to do that, I found this very enlightening. I enjoyed this in the same lines as David Chadwick's "Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan". Both looked at not only the rigors of the Zen monastic life, but also the social constructs of being a westerner immersed in a foreign philosophy in a foreign culture and country.
Wonderful read for anyone interesting in the topc.
(Thank you, Aunt Alex!)
This was given to me as a gift from Aunt Alex, and I am so grateful. It is such a unique story- a Dutchman who moves to Japan to live in a Zen monastery and study Buddhism. Being someone who has always wanted to do that, I found this very enlightening. I enjoyed this in the same lines as David Chadwick's "Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan". Both looked at not only the rigors of the Zen monastic life, but also the social constructs of being a westerner immersed in a foreign philosophy in a foreign culture and country.
Wonderful read for anyone interesting in the topc.
(Thank you, Aunt Alex!)
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