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Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan

By David Chadwick

Book information

Publisher
Shambhala
Year
2007
ISBN
1590304705, 9781590304709
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1605972 bytes)
Edition
First Shambhala
Pages
480\0
Time added
2024-01-22 19:01:04

Description

David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the mysterious ways of Japan. Whether you're interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun.

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