Zen Romance: One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery
by Deborah Boliver Boehm

A Zen Romance is a look back at one young woman's search for true love and deeper meaning in and around a Buddhist temple in the Kyoto of the 1960s. Boehm was a college student with a philosophical bent during the years when Eastern religions were a rising fad on American campuses. There was no love lost, though, between her and the humorless "Zen freaks" she encountered at school. She went to Japan's ancient capital to study the language and, as she jokingly announced, "to get away from Zen". But this was not so easy: the apartment she found was next door to a monastery. Over several months of studying and taking meals at the temple, she gained the trust of her neighbor monks with her wry sense of humor and unswerving generosity. She gradually earned the friendship of all, losing her heart in the process to Zen and several of its practitioners.

ZB1771    Zen Romance: One Woman's Adventures in a Monaster     $14.00

	contains 0 items
Proceed to Checkout
Continue shopping:   Product Catalog    Geographic Catalog
Back to top