Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

Faith Adiele

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Book cover for Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

Faith Adiele

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Description

Northern Thailand's first black Buddhist nun traces her journey from a Harvard scholarship student in the world of pop culture to her ordination into a world marked by natural violence and eastern philosophy, discussing her resistance to the Buddhist worldview and her struggles to overcome difficult

Critical Reviews

"Adiele has a comic's timing, a novelist's keen observations about human idiosyncrasies and an anthropologist's sensitivity to issues of race and culture."

Publishing Information

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pub date: 2005-07-01
Length: 300 pages

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