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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery - Van De Wetering, Janwillem
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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 ...

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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery 1999, St. Martin's Griffin, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312207748

Trade paperback

Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery 1975, Mariner Books

ISBN-13: 9780395204436

Trade paperback

The Empty Mirror; Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery 1974, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA

ISBN-13: 9780395182826

Dutch

Hardcover

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery 1973, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

ISBN-13: 9780710075789

Dutch

Hardcover