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Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
Michael Downing
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| #371768 in Books | Counterpoint | 2002-09-03 | 2002-09-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .68 x6.52 x8.70l,1.18 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| 1983 haunts this book, the one year no one would talk about; the one year no one would stop talking about|By James Kenney|For those who are interested in Zen in America, this is a stunning book. It portrays the early history of San Francisco Zen Center and its satellites, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch. Michael Downing had barely tasted Zen when he began this boo|.com |Why did the richest, most influential, highest flying Zen center in America crash and burn in 1983? Novelist Michael Downing wondered the same thing, and after three years of interviewing members and poring over documents, his Shoes Outside the Door
Eastern tradition collides with Western individualism in this provocative and compulsively readable investigation of Buddhism, American-style. A genuine spiritual movement becomes strangely entangled with elitist aesthetics, the culture of celebrity, multi-million-dollar investment portfolios, sex scandals, and an unsolved crime.
Told Rashomon-fashion by a singular mix of hippies, millionaires, intellectuals, and lost souls whose lives are almost unbelievably intertwin...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center | Michael Downing. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
