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| #626129 in Books | Da Capo Press | 2000-06-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .79 x5.56 x8.43l,.80 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Zen in the new world!|By Nance Di Nigeratti|This is a most wonderful exploration of modern Buddhism through the prism of the life of Issan Tommy Dorsey. Sometimes the Zen tradition seems inaccessible to Westerns. This is a California story. This is a tale that could have taken place nowhere else. It is the extraordinary tale of the transformation of a child of the 60s counter-c|From Library Journal|Issan Dorsey once described himself as a "faggot speed-freak cross dresser," a description that only hints at the outrageousness of his life of substance abuse, prostitution, and female impersonation before embracing Zen in late-Sixties San
Drag queen, junkie, alcoholic, commune leader--and, finally, Buddhist teacher: these words describe the unlikely persona of Issan Dorsey, one of the most beloved teachers to emerge from American Zen. Street Zen follows Dorsey from his days as a female impersonator to the LSD experiences that set him on the spiritual path. In 1989, after 20 years of Zen practice, he became abbot of San Francisco's Hartford Street Zen Center, where he founded a hospice for AIDS patien...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey | David Schneider.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
