num_pages: 204
description: Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.
language: English
title: The Dharma Bums
titlecomplete: The Dharma Bums
characters: Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder
genres: American, Philosophy, Buddhism, Novels, Travel, Literature, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Spirituality
ratings_count: 92727
places: South Carolina, Oregon, Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, California
series: Duluoz Legend
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd