Author: Boehm, Deborah Boliver
Paperback
264 pages
Published: December 1997
Kodansha International
ISBN: 4770021771
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A Zen Romance is a look back at one young woman's search for true love and deeper meaning in and around a Buddhist temple in the Kyoto of the 1960s. Boehm was a college student with a philosophical bent during the years when Eastern religions were a rising fad on American campuses. There was no love lost, though, between her and the humorless Zen freaks she encountered at school. She went to Japan's ancient capital to study the language and, as she jokingly announced, to get away from Zen.But this was not so easy: the apartment she found was next door to a monastery. Over several months of studying and taking meals at the temple, she gained the trust of her neighbor monks with her wry sense of humor and unswerving generosity. She gradually earned the friendship of all, losAn endearing and humorous account of a young American woman's search for love and enlightenment in a Zen temple in Japan in the 1960s.