Only a few of these stories touch
on the Dharma explicitly and this book takes you on an inward tour
across the whole world-to the jungles of Indonesia, a fog-shrouded park
in San Francisco, the sun-blistered African veldt, a Burmese monastery
surrounded by gun-fire, and the church-like sanctuary of a Nebraska
barn, just to name a few. Collectively these stories paint a living
portrait of the face of Buddhism, and readers may discover that that
face is a strangely familiar one-and that every journey only ever leads
home.
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Edited by Keith Kachtick—the author of Hungry Ghost: A Novel (A New York Times Notable Book),You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction—offers
more surprising and transcendent work from some of fiction's famous
names, alongside that of names you've never heard before—but surely will
again:
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Lama Surya Das, Keith Kachtick, Robert Olen Butler, Kate Wheeler,
Anne Donovan, Samantha Schoech, Mary Yukari Waters, Andrew Foster
Altschul, Jess Row, Anh Chi Pham, Sean Murphy, Pico Iyer, Dan Zigmond,
Michele Martin, Sean Hoade, Jeff Davis, Jake Lorfing, Geshe Michael
Roach, Anne Carolyn Klein, Dean Sluyter, Mark Salzman, and Hal
Hallstein.
