Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Ordination, Love, and Monastic Zen in Japan - Softcover

Greenwood, Gesshin Claire

 
9781614293972: Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Ordination, Love, and Monastic Zen in Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 161429397X ISBN 13: 9781614293972
Verlag: Wisdom Publications, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

What happens when a free-spirited, modern American girl goes on a spiritual quest into structured, traditional Japanese Zen life?

Gesshin Claire Greenwood was a liberal, free-spirited American girl who found meaning and freedom in disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life. However, she came to question not only contemporary American values but also traditional monastic ones.

This book is about becoming an adult—about sexuality, religion, work, ethics, and individuality—but it is also about being a human being trying to be happy. Questioning is a theme that runs throughout the book: how can I be happy? What is true? What is authentic? The reader is invited along a journey that is difficult, inspiring, sad, funny, and sincere.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gesshin was born and raised in San Francisco. She began meditating when she was 19, and then studied abroad in Bodh Gaya, India, where she received temporary ordination in the Burmese Theravada lineage. She received a BA in English from Wesleyan University in 2009, and spent the majority of her twenties in India and Japan practicing Buddhism. She ordained with Seido Suzuki Roshi in 2010, and received dharma transmission in 2015. She is currently completing a master’s in East Asian Studies from the University of Southern California, where she focuses on women in Buddhism and feminism in a transnational perspective.

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Verlag
Wisdom Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
161429397X
ISBN 13 
9781614293972
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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