Saffron Days in LA: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America

✍ Scribed by Piyananda, Bhante Walpola

• Book ID: 109848258
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780834828810

✦ Synopsis

Inthis delightful memoir, Bhante Walpola Piyananda, a Buddhist monk from SriLanka, shares his often amusing, often poignant experiences of life in America.Whether he's reasoning with a group of confrontational punks on Venice Beach,bridging the gap between a rebellious teenager and her traditional parents,explaining to an errant Buddhist that the concept of "non-attachment"does not justify irresponsibility, or dealing with a nude sunbather at ameditation retreat, no situation--no matter how sticky--manages to affectBhante's unflappable calm or his phenomenal ability to find the right parablefor the moment.

Bhante Walpola Piyananda, who is abbot of a Buddhist meditation center inL.A., has met and counseled a wide range of people--the disenfranchised ofsociety, couples dealing with relationship issues, American Buddhists trying toreconcile their practice with their very Western lifestyles, recent immigrantsstruggling to assimilate but also...