description: A small and admirable memoir that records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery.
language: English
title: The Empty Mirror: Experience In a Japanese Zen Monastery
titlecomplete: The Empty Mirror: Experience In a Japanese Zen Monastery
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Biography, Buddhism, Travel, Zen, Nonfiction, Japan, Spirituality, Memoir
ratings_count: 1459
publisher: Pocket