Hard travel to sacred places
By: Rudolph Wurlitzer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Wurlitzer, Rudolph -- Travel -- Cambodia.; Wurlitzer, Rudolph -- Travel -- Thailand.; Wurlitzer, Rudolph -- Travel -- Burma.; Buddhism -- Cambodia.; Buddhism -- Thailand.; Buddhism -- Burma.; Cambodia -- Description and travel.; Thailand -- Description and travel.; Burma -- Description and travel.
Description: "Hard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer - novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner - travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast to the peace that Wurlitzer and Davis seek, still reeling from the death of their son in a car accident. As Davis with her camera searches for a thread of meaning among the artifacts and relics of a more enlightened age, Wurlitzer grasps at the wisdom of the Buddhist teachings in an effort to assuage his grief. His journal chronicles the survival of age-old truths in a world gone mad."--BOOK JACKET.