Hidden Buddhas
Subtitle: a novel of karma and chaos
By: Liza Dalby ; with illustrations by Michael Hofmann.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781933330853
Description: "Hundreds of temples in Japan are known to keep mysterious 'hidden buddhas' secreted away ... An American graduate student begins to suspect the mysterious purpose of the hidden buddhas, just as he falls in love with a beautiful Japanese artist who is haunted by an aborted child. The weaving of karma that brings these two together results in a tech-savvy half-Western, half-Japanese child who text-messages her way through the profane world to the enlightenment. Tracing the lives of its characters through the late 20th century to the present, from Paris to Kyoto to California, Hidden buddhas turns a cosmopolitan eye on discipline and decadence in religion, fashion, politics and modern life"--Page 4 of cover.