Eastern tradition collides with Western individualism in this provocative and compulsively readable investigation of Buddhism, American-style. A genuine spiritual movement becomes strangely entangled with elitist aesthetics, the culture of celebrity, multi-million-dollar investment portfolios, sex scandals, and an unsolved crime.
Told Rashomon-fashion by a singular mix of hippies, millionaires, intellectuals, and lost souls whose lives are almost unbelievably intertwined, Shoes Outside the Door is the first book to examine the inner workings of the profoundly influential San Francisco Zen...
Eastern tradition collides with Western individualism in this provocative and compulsively readable investigation of Buddhism, American-style. A genui...
Michael Downing was three when his father died suddenly and inexplicably. No autopsy was performed. The family diagnosis was God's will. As a boy in the Berkshires, Downing was rigorously trained as a spiritual athlete, but he couldn't exorcise his fondness for the wrong books and other boys. He aimed for Harvard and escaped his inherited sense of identity--until one of his brothers died in 2003, suddenly and inexplicably. Again, no autopsy was performed. Alarmed, Downing pursued a diagnosis and discovered he had inherited a mutant protein from his father, and that the first...
Michael Downing was three when his father died suddenly and inexplicably. No autopsy was performed. The family diagnosis was God's will. As...
