49 Buddhas: Lama Rinzen in the Hell Realm (Lama Rinzen Mysteries, Band 1) - Softcover

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Ringel, Jim

 
9780999539828: 49 Buddhas: Lama Rinzen in the Hell Realm (Lama Rinzen Mysteries, Band 1)

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Buddhist monk Lama Rinzen finds himself reborn as a detective into the Hell Realm on Denver’s Colfax Avenue. His assignment: find who killed insurance hotshot and prominent businessman Sonny Heller.

Rinzen knows nothing about detective work, nor does he understand insurance or what kind of guarantees it offers. But he does believe finding Heller’s killer may lead him to the Dorje, a sacred Tibetan talisman that has been lost to him throughout his many lifetimes and which he must find if he is to advance along his path toward being a bodhisattva. That is his mission. To become a bodhisattva and lead all sentient beings to enlightenment so that he himself might become enlightened. That is the only way to end his endless cycle of rebirth.

Each lifetime presents a lesson to learn. Each lesson offers a promise to be realized. Finding the Dorje will make this all clear to Rinzen. That is how he will proceed.

Until he meets Abril, who tells him she is the reason Rinzen is been reborn on Colfax, and that his mission is not enlightenment, but to help her find health insurance. She has a pre-existing condition that denies her coverage, and a true bodhisattva she says would help her no matter what the cost. And although helping her sounds like a noble plan, it is not exactly the lesson he expected

49 Buddhas: Lama Rinzen in the Hell Realm is a murder mystery wrapped inside a Buddhist mystery that combines the pacing of a thriller with elements of speculative fiction. It's a magical realism mystery with a lesson.

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