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Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
Shoes Outside the Door Desire Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
Author: Michael Downing
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-...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781582432540
ISBN-10: 1582432546
Publication Date: 9/3/2002
Pages: 416
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3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Very well-written, well-researched account of the Zen Center scandals at the end of the last century.
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American Zen Buddhist drama - sounds oxymoronic. "No good deed goes unpunished" as they say. Who knew that Deborah Madison, Smith & Hawken and The Whole Earth Catalog had ties to this movement? At 385 pages and written by an outsider, it was a fast and enjoyable read.


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