The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

<p>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 <i>Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism</i>, has written, <i>The Empty Mirror</i> "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."</p><p>It is the first book in a trilogy that continues with <i>A Glimpse of Nothingness</i> and <i>Afterzen</i>.</p>