Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir

by Marilyn Stablein

"The author's eye is wide open, and her writing is fresh, funny, and exhilarating."--Peter Matthiessen

"Marilyn Stablein's wry voice tells how it was, calmly and clearly, unadorned. . . . whether on the ground with sadhus and chapatis or in the sky with diamonds, these wry prose poems evoke a last epiphany of the best of East and West."--Keith Dowman, author of The Power Places of Tibet

In 1965, Stablein drops out of Berkeley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097263570X
• ISBN13: 9780972635707
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A window into quiet daily workings of another land

Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himalayan Memoir is the true story of a woman who dropped out of Berkeley in 1965 to travel to India and Nepal with her lover. Their time there becomes a seven year stay in which she expresses herself through painting, and learns the secrets, wonders, and sacred essence of a profoundly spiritual culture. A smattering of black-and-white photographs and essays illustrate the award-winning author's dazzling journey through a rich and rewarding culture, and a brief glossary will prove helpful to readers unfamiliar with Indian, Nepali, and Buddhist terms. A highly recommended window into quiet daily workings of another land as observered and experienced. by Marilyn Stablein.

Kudos for Sleeping in Caves

I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend Sleeping in Caves. The writing is beautiful and sensuous, and reveals exactly enough but never too much. I particularly admire the structure of the book, how it is not chronological and yet the reader can follow the progression of the journey. I loved how each chapter begins with an entry from The Pillow Book of Dreams or the writer's journal. The dreams are a complete delight in themselves.I gave the book to a friend for her 50th birthday and she read it eagerly. She has been studying Islam and grappling with extreme monotheism. She reports that the book gave her a refreshing vacation and a welcome reminder of the abundance and diversity of deity.