num_pages: 311
description: Journals of a young Irish woman who entered the toughest Zen monastery in Japan and made such progress that she was declared "enlightened" - the only westerner to receive such an honour. Here, she describes the rigours, hardships and joys of Zen training and temple life.
language: English
title: Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Zen Journal and Letters of an Irish Woman in Japan
titlecomplete: Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Zen Journal and Letters of an Irish Woman in Japan
genres: Buddhism, Biography, Spirituality, Japan, Religion, Zen, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 362
publisher: Thorsons