The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

✍ Scribed by van de Wetering, Janwillem

• Book ID: 109910416
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 172 KB
• Series: Zen 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466874664

✦ Synopsis

Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student--later a widely celebrated mystery writer--who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism , has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."

It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with A Glimpse of Nothingness and Afterzen.