Waking Up: A Week Inside a Zen Monastery by Jack MaGuire

ISBN 81-88569-01-1
Paperback, pp. 189
140 mm x 215 mm
Rs. 195
(For sale in the Indian sub-continent only)

This book is an essential guide to what it is like to spend a week inside a Zen Buddhist monastery. The notion of spending days at a time in silence and meditation amid the serene beauty of a Zen monastery may be appealing-but how do you do it and what can you really expect from the experience? Waking Up provides the answers for anyone who is just curious, as well as for all those who have dreamed of actually giving it a try and now want to know where to begin. A detailed "Guide to Zen and Buddhist Places" and a glossary of terms make Waking Up not only a handbook for the curious seeker, but an excellent resource for anyone wanting to know more about the Buddhist way.

The Author

Jack Maguire is an author and storyteller, and a student at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. He has written more than twenty books, including The Power of Personal Storytelling (Tarcher/Putnam) and Essential Buddhism (Simon & Schuster), and he annotated Dhammapada: Annotated & Explained (SkyLight Paths). He lives in the town of Highland in New York's Hudson River Valley.

John Daido Loori, Roshi, is abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and author of numerous books, including Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-Air and Making Love with Light.