Turtle Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk
Author(s): Nikolai Grozni
A brilliantly colorful memoir of becoming a monk and a young manas spiritual journey in India.
Nikolai Grozni, a Boston jazz pianist prodigy struck by spiritual ennui, suddenly abandoned 15 years of music studies to seek out the Dalai Lamaas university in India, where he began his quest for the ultimate truth. Instead of finding answers, Grozni fell in with an unusual cast of characters, and struggled with Buddhist logic and with the many small challenges to life as a monk. This is his bittersweet and funny memoir about the search for higher power, and the discovery of oneself amidst teeming, chaotic, and glorious humanity.
General Information
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- : Riverhead Books
- : Riverhead Books
- : 0.308
- : 05 May 2009
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Nikolai Grozni
- : Paperback
- : 9-Sep
- : 342
- : Biography & autobiography: religious & spiritual
More About The Product
aSkeptical and demystifying...intimate and precise.a
a"The New York Times Book Review"
a[A] thoughtful, sharply funny memoir.a
a"People"
aA rare and wonderful book, unlike anything Iave ever read before.a
aAnne Lamott
aRemarkablea]I felt enlightened for having read it.a
aA. J. Jacobs, author of "The Year of Living Biblically"
