Women in Korean Zen: Lives and Practices

by Martine Batchelor

Book Overview

In this engagingly written account, Martine Batchelor relays the challenges a new ordinand faces in adapting to Buddhist monastic life: the spicy food, the rigorous daily schedule, the distinctive clothes and undergarments, and the cultural misunderstandings inevitable between a French woman and her Korean colleagues. She reveals as well the genuine pleasures that derive from solitude, meditative training, and communion with the deeply religiouswhom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560842X
• ISBN13: 9780815608424
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"