num_pages: 146
description: Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student―later a widely celebrated mystery writer―who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism , has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with A Glimpse of Nothingness and Afterzen .
language: English
title: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
titlecomplete: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
genres: Buddhism, Japan, Biography, Spirituality, Philosophy, Religion, Zen, Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir
ratings_count: 1459
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin