Putnam Publishing Group (publisher); Riverhead Books (Imprint/ hardcovers)
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Available Through: Alibris 1.Item Status: Out of Print (Available for Order) 2.Author Info: Jan Willis is a professor of religion at Wesleyan University and the first African American scholar-practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism in America.
關鍵詞
佛教女性=Buddhist Woman; 傳記=Biography
摘要
The first African American Tibetan scholar recounts her life story, from enduring a Klan-terrorized childhood to finding freedom through the guidance of a Tibetan spiritual master in Nepal. In the fall of 1969, in the wake of a widening racial divide in the United States, Jan Willis began what would become a life-changing sojourn. By the time Willis left her home in an Alabama mining camp for undergraduate studies at Cornell University, the harsh reality of life in the segregated South of the 1950s and 1960s had left an indelible stain on her consciousness.
Confronted then with the decision to either arm herself in the struggle for human rights at home or search for the possibility of a more humane existence abroad, Willis ultimately chose peace among the burgundy and saffron robes of a Tibetan Buddhist monastary over the black berets of the Black Panther Party.
What she discovered, living in a narrow temple amid 60 Tibetan monks, was the healing place she had sought but not found in her Southern Baptist town of Docena. The book is a memoir about healing old wounds, realizing the ability to dream and finding peace and contentedness against seemingly insurmountable odds.
